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To BUSS, v. a. To kifs ; to falute with the lips l 
Go to them with this bonnet in thy hand, 
Thy knee buffing. the ftones•; for in fuch bufinefs 
Action is eloquence. Shakefpeare. 
BUS'SET, a town of France, in the department of the 
Allier, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of Cuf- 
fet : five miles fouth-eaft of CufTet. 
BUSSET'TO, a town of Italy, and capital of a fmall 
diftridt, in the duchy of Piacenza : eight miles fouth-ea-ft 
of Cremona, and feventeen eaft of Piacenza. 
BUS'SI, Bussissi, or Boississi, an ifland of Africa, 
in the Atlantic, near the ifland of Billao. 
BUSSIE'RE-BADEL, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Dordogne, and chief place or a canton, in 
the diftrift of Nontron: eight miles north of Nontron. 
BUSSIE'RE-G AL AN'DE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Upper Vienne : five leagues fouth-weft 
of Limoges. 
BOUSSIE'RE POITEVI'NF, a town of France, in 
the department of the Upper Vienne, and chief place of a 
canton, in the diftrict of le Dorat: ten miles north-weft 
of Bellac. 
BUSSIE'RES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Marne, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tribt of Langres : four leagues foutli-eaft of Langres. 
BUS'SOVATZ, a town of Bofnia : twenty miles fouth 
of Serajo. 
BUS'SY (Roger Rabutin count of), a Frenchman, il- 
luftrious for wit and misfortunes, born April 3, 1618, of 
an ancient family in Burgundy. He was trained to letters; 
'after which he entered into the army, and, riling gradually 
to very high polls, was much diftinguifhed as a military 
man. But what he had done with his fword, he feems to 
have undone with his wit; for, expofing fome ladies of 
high rank and influence, in a piece intituled, Les Amours 
des Gaules, he was complained of to the king, and im- 
prifoned in the Baftile. This was about the year 1665. 
He was releafed however from this place the year after, 
on account of illnefs; but releafed only to be baniflied into 
his own country, where he lived an exile many years upon 
his own eftate. All his works are in French, and were 
printed at Paris. He died in 1693, aged feventy-five. Buf- 
fy was the author of 1. Memoirs, 1693, 2vols. 4to. 2. 
Difcourfe to his Children, upon the Ufe to be made of 
Adverfity, and the different Events of Life, 1694, nmo. 
3. Abridged Hifiory of Lewis the Great, 1699, i2mo. 
4. Letters, 7 vols. 121110. 5. Poems, fcattered through 
his Letters, and in other collections. 
BUS'SY LE GRAND, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Cote d’Or, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftrict of Semur-en-Auxois : three leagues north- 
eaft of Seniur. 
BUST,/. [ bujlo , Ital.] A ftatue reprefenting a man to 
his bread : 
Ambition flgh’d : flie found it vain to trull 
The faithlels column, and the crumbling bvf. Pope. 
BUS'TA GAL'LICA, f. A place in ancient Rome, 
wherein the bones of the Gauls, who firft took the city, 
and were tlain by Camillus, were depofited. It differed 
from Bufla Gallorum, which was a place on the Apennines, 
thus called by reafon of many thoufands of Gauls killed 
there by Fabius. 
BUS'TARD,/ in ornithology, the wild turkey. See 
"'Otis. 
BUS'TARD, a river of Canada, which runs into the ri¬ 
ver St Lawrence : feven miles weft of Manicougan Point. 
BUS'TARD BAY, a bay on the eaft coaft of New Hol¬ 
land, with good anchorage in five fathoms. Lat. 24. 4. S. 
Ion, 151- 42. E. Greenwich. 
BUS'T I A, a town of European Turkey, in the province 
of Albania : fifty-two miles weft-fouth-weft of Delfino. 
To BUS'TLE, v. v. [of uncertain etymology ; perhaps 
from bufyf To be bufy ; to ftir; to be active ; 
BUS 
A poor abjeCt worm, 
I hat crawl’d a while upon a bufling world 
And now am trampled to my duft again. Southerne. 
BUS'TLE, /. A tumult; a hurry; a combuftion.—■ 
This is the creature that pretends to knowledge, and that 
makes fuch a noife and bujlle for opinions. Glanville. 
BUS'TLER,/ An active flirting man. 
BUS'TO GRANDE, a town of Italy, in the duchy of 
Milan : fixteen miles north-weft of Milan. 
BUSTUA'R I/E MOE'CHZE,/ According to fome au¬ 
thors, women that were hired to accompany the funeral 
and lament the lofs of the deceafed : but others are of 
opinion, that they were common proftitutes, that (food a- 
ltiong the tombs, graves, and other lonely places. 
BUSTUA'RH,/. in Roman antiquity, gladiators-who 
fought about the buftum or funeral pile of a perfon of 
diftinCtion, that the blood which was fpilt might ferve as 
a facrifice to the infernal gods, and render them more pro¬ 
pitious to the manes of the deceafed. This cuftom was 
introduced inftead of the more inhuman one of facrificing 
captives at the buftum, or on the tombs of warriors. 
BUS'TUM-,/ A pyramid or pile of wood, whereon 
were anciently placed the bodies of the deceafed, in order 
to be burnt. The Romans borrowed this cuftom from the 
Greeks. The deceafed, crowned with flowers, and drefled 
in his richeft habits, was laid on the buftum. Some au¬ 
thors fay, it was only called buftum , after the burning, quofi 
bene ufum ; before the burning it was more properly called 
pyra ; during it, rogus ; and afterwards, buftum. When 
the body was only burnt there, and buried elewhere, the 
place was not properly called bufum , but ufrina, or ufrinum. 
BUS'TUM, J'. in the Campus Martins, was a ftructure 
whereon the emperor Auguftus firft, and after him the bo¬ 
dies of his fuccelfors, were burnt. It was built of white 
(lone, fnrrounded with an iron palifade, and planted with 
alder-trees. Bufurn was alfo figuratively applied to denote 
any tomb. Whence thofe phrafes, facere bufum, violate 
bufurn, &c. Bufum of an altar , was the hearth or place 
where the fire was kindled. 
BUSULGI'NO, a fettlement of Siberia, on the Indi- 
girda : 288 miles north-north-eaft of Zafchiverfk. 
BU'SY, adj. \_byrgian, Sax. It is pronounced as bify, or 
bizzy. ] Employed with earneftnefs.—My miftrefs fends 
you word that (he is bufy, and cannot come; Shakefpeare. 
—Bulfling ; active ; meddling : 
Thus bufy pow’r is working day and night.; 
For, when the outward fenfes reft do take, 
A thoufand dreams, fantaftical and light, 
With flutt’ring wings, do keep her (fill awake. Davies. 
Troublefome ; vexatioufly importunate orintenfive.—The 
Chriltians, fometimes valiantly receiving the enemy, and 
fometimes charging them again, repulfed the proud ene¬ 
my, fti 11 bufy with them. Knolles. 
“As Busyas a hen with one chicken.” Spoken of 
people who make a great deal of work and (fir about very 
trivial affairs. 
“Who more B u sy than they who have leaft to do.”' 
They who have no bufinefs of their own, are generally 
buftling about, and troubling themfelves with other peo¬ 
ple’s. According to another proverb, 
“ Busy folks are always meddling.” Spoken of thofe 
officious perions who are always thrufting themfelves into 
other people’s concerns. 
To BU'SY, v. a. To employ; to engage; to make or 
keep bufy.—While they were bufed to lay 1 he foundations, 
their buildings were overthrown by an earthquake, and 
many thoufands of the Jews were overwhelmed. Raleigh. 
BU'SYBODY,/ A vain, meddling, fantaftical, perfon. 
—Going from houfe to houfe, tatlers and bujybodies are the 
canker and ruft of idlenefs, as idienefs is the ruft of time,. 
Taylor. 
BUS'ZA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Brac- 
law ; fifty-two miles fouth-well of Braclaw. 
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