ftfc BUS 
^be charadler of a faithful Catholic, his want of ch'adity 
notwithdanding. He wrote many religious and contro- 
,ver(ial trails, 
BUSH, a river of Ireland, which runs into the fea : 
three miles fouth-vvefl of Bengore Head. 
BUSH, a town of United America, in the date of Mary¬ 
land, on a river of the fame name, which runs into the 
Su.fqiteharia. about two miles below : twenty miles north- 
ead of Baltimore. 
BU'SHEL,/. [ boiJJ'cau , Fr. bvjfellus, lovvLat.] A mea¬ 
sure’'containing eight gallons ; a (trike. — His reafons are 
as two-grains of wheat hid in two bnjhels of chaff; you 
ihall feck, all day ere you find them ; and, when you have 
them, they are not worth the fearch. Shakefpeare. —It is 
ufed, in common language, indefinitely for a large quan- 
tity. —The worthies of antiquity bought the rareft pic¬ 
tures with bnjhels of gold, without counting the weight or 
the number of pieces. Dryden. — For the prefent exifiing 
'laws regulating the buflie), fee the article Measure. 
“ To mea fine another man’s corn by one’sown Bushel.” 
The French fay, Mefurer les autres a fon aune. The Italians, 
Mfurare gli allri col.Juo baffetlo, ‘ To meafure others with 
one’s own ell.’ All fignifying to judge of another man’s 
actions or circumftahces by one’s own. 
. Bushels of a. Cart-wheel, irons within the hole of 
'the nave, to preferve it from wearing; [from bouc/ie, Fr. 
a month.] 
B'U'SH INESS,/ ’The quality of being bulky. 
BUSII'MENT, f. A thicket; a duller of bullies.— 
Princes thought how they might difeharge the earth of 
woods, briars, bufhments, and waters, to make it more ha¬ 
bitable and fertile. Raleigh. 
.. BU'SIIY, adj. Thick; full of fmall branches, nothigh: 
The gentle Ihepherd fat befide a fpring, 
All in the diadow of a bufiy brier. Spcnfer. 
Thick like a bit(h.—Statues of this god, with a thick bufiy 
beard, are (till many of them extant in Rome. Addifon. — 
Full of bufhes : 
The kids with pleafure browfe the bujhy plain ; 
The fnow’rs are grateful to the fwelling grain. Dryden. 
BU'SILESS, adj. At leifure ; without bufmefs; un¬ 
employed : 
The fweet thoughts do even refrefh my labour, 
Moft bufiefs when I do it. Shahejpeare. 
RU'SILY, adj. With an air of importance ; with an air 
of hurry. Curioufly ;. importunately. 
BUSINESS,/ Employment; multiplicity of affairs : 
Mud bufintfs thee from hence remove? 
Oh ! that’s the word difeafe of love. Donne. 
An affair. In this fenfe it has the plural; 
Bedow your needful counfel to our bufnejfs , 
Which crave the indant ufe. Shakefpeare. 
The fubject of bufmefs ; the affair or objec 5 l that engages 
the care. — The great bufmefs of the fenfes being to take 
notice uf what hurts or advantages the body. Locke. —Se¬ 
rious engagement : in oppofition to trivial tranfadlions.— 
1 never knew one, who made it his bufmefs to lafh the faults 
of other writers, that was not guilty of greater himfelf. 
Addifon. —Right of aflion.—What bufmefs has a tortoife 
among the clouds. L'Efrange. —A point; a matter of 
queftion ; iomething to be examined or confidered.—Fit- 
nefs to govern, is a perplexed bufmefs ; fome men, fome 
nations, excel in the one ability, tome in the other. Bacon. 
. —Something to be traiifaded.—They were far from the 
Zidonians, and had no bufmefs with any one. Judges. — 
Something required to be done.—To thofe people that 
dwell under the equator, this fpring would be mod pedi- 
jent : as for thofe countries that are nearer the poles, in 
which number are our own, and the mod confiderable na¬ 
tions of the world, a perpetual fpring will not do their 
fnefs ; they mud; have longer days, a nearer approach to 
the fun. Bentley. 
BUS 
To do one's Business. To kill, dedroy, or ruin, him. 
A cant phrafe. 
BU'SIR, a town of Egypt: eighteen miles foiith-ved 
of Cairo. 
BU'SIR, a town of Egypt, on the borders of the Nile : 
feven miles north-weft of AOununein. 
BU'SIR, a town of Egypt: twelve miles fouth-weft of 
Atfieh. 
RUSl'RIS, a king of Egypt, fon of Neptune and Libya, 
or Lyfianafla, who facrifieed all foreigners to Jupiter with 
the greatelf barbarity. When Hercules vifited Egypt, 
Bufiris carried him to the altar bound hand and foot. The 
hero loon difentangled himfelf, and offered the tyrant and 
the monders of his cruelty on the altar. Many Egyptian 
princes have borne the fame name. Strabo , & 3 c. 
BUSI'R IS, anciently a city of the Lower Egypt, to the 
foulh of Leontopolis, on that branch of the Nile called 
Bufiriticus : built by Bufiris mentioned above, Diodorus Si¬ 
culus. In this city dood a grand temple of Ifis, which 
gave it the appellation of the city of Ifis. It was dedroyed 
on a revolt by Dioclefian. 
BUSIRI'TICUS FLU'VIUS, the ancient name of that 
branch of the Nile which empties itfelf at the mouth call¬ 
ed Of turn Pathmeticum, or Pliatniticum. Ptolemy. Alfo a 
part, according to an ancient map, of the Odium Minde- 
fium; this river, or branch, dividing itfelf at Diofpolis 
into two branches : called Bufriticus, from the city of Bu¬ 
firis, which flood on its left, or wed branch. It is the fe- 
cond branch of the Nile, reckoniiig from the ead. 
BUSIRI' I ICUS NO'MOS, anciently a prefecture or 
divifion of Lower Egypt; fo called from the city Bufiris. 
Herodotus. 
BU'SITIS, the ancient name of a EidriCl of Arabia 
Deferta; fo called from Bus, or Buz, Nahor’s fecond fon; 
the country of Elihu, the fourth interlocutor in Job ; call¬ 
ed Buzites by the Septuagunt. 
BUSK,/ [ bufque , Fr. ] A piece of deel or whalebone, 
worn by women to drengthen their days : 
Off with that happy bujk, which I envy, 
That dill can be and fiill can dand fo nigh. Donne. 
BUSK, a town of the duchy of Courland : eighteen 
miles fouth-fouth-wed of Mittaw. 
BUS'KIN,/. [brofeken, Dut.] A kind of half boot; a 
fhoe which comes to the midleg.—There is a kind of rus¬ 
ticity in all thofe pompous vcrfes; fomewhat of a holiday 
Ihepherd drutting in his country bufkins. Dryden. — A kind 
of high fhoe worn by the ancient aftors of tragedy, to 
raife their flature : 
In her bed light the comic mufe appears, 
When die with borrow’d pride the bufkin wears. Smith. 
BUS'KINED,^/'. Dreded in bufkins: 
Here, arm’d with filver bows, in early dawn, 
Her buflin’d virgins trac’d the dewy lawn. Pope. 
BUS'KY, adj. [written more properly by Milton, bojky. 
See Bosky.] Woody; fhaded with woods; overgrown 
with trees : 
How bloodily the fun begins to peer 
Above yon bufiy. hill. Shakefpeare. 
BUS'KY, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Belz : 
twenty-fix miles ead-fomh-eaft of Belz. 
BUSO'DRA, a town of Aliatic Turkey,, in the Arabian 
Irak : ninety miles north-wed of Balfora. 
BUSS,/ [bus, the mouth, Irifh ; bouche , Fr.] A kifs 
a dilute with the lips : 
Some fqtiire perhaps you take delight to rack, 
Who vifits with a gun, prefents with birds, 
Then gives a fmacking bvfs. Pope. 
A boat or veflel principally ufed in the herring fidiery; 
\_bujfe, Ger.]—If the king would enter towards building 
fucli a number of boats and bujfies, as each company could 
eaiily manage, it would be an encouragement both of ho¬ 
nour and advantage. Temple. 
