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frondes , in animalium aliorumve effigies cowponi i 3 detonacri 
free alia quaccunque apta ejl. And Martial obfeives of the 
garden at Balfus’s country-houfe : 
._ ctiofis ordinata myrtetis, 
Viducique Plaiano, tonjilique buxtlo. 
It was fecond to the yew with us in former times for 
the purpofe of being clipped into the fliape of animals, 
Scc. but the dwarf box hood unrivalled “ for bordering 
up a knot, .and was efteemed a marvellous fine ornament 
to the flower-garden.” The branches were in requefl a- 
mong our anceflors for decking up houfes ; they are flill 
feen°among other evergreens in churches at Chriftmas, 
and in fome countries they are borne by attendants at fu¬ 
nerals. In our plantations, the box hill keeps its place de- 
fervedly among ornamental evergreens. It will flourifh 
under the aeepeft (hade, and will thrive in any foil and 
expofure. Dr. Stokes affirms, that it is fit to cut down 
in about thirty years. 
Box has been much celebrated as a medicine in the ve¬ 
nereal difeafe, cholic, intermittent fevers, See. Old Gc- 
rarde obferves, “ that it is more fit for dagger-hafts than 
to make medicines; though foolilh empiricks and women 
leaches-do miniher it again!! the apoplexy and f'ucli dif- 
eafes.” He adds, “ that turners and cutlers call this wood 
dudgeon, becaufe they make "dudgeon-hatted daggers with 
it.”° Parkinfon, in his firh work fays, “ it has no phyh- 
cal ufe among the moh and beh phyficians, although fome 
have reported it to hay fluxes, and to be as good as guaia- 
cum for the French difeafe.” Yet in his fecond work he 
fets it down as a medicine for the bite of a mad dog ; as 
a cure for the bots in horfes ; and the leaves and faw-duft 
boiled in lye, to change the hair to an aborne (auburn) or 
Abraham colour.” According to Dr. Withering, “ an 
empyreumatic oil, dihilled from the (havings, is often ufed 
as a topical application for the piles, and feldom fails to 
procure eafe; it will frequently relieve the tooth-ach, and 
has been given internally in epilepfies.; the leaves pow¬ 
dered deftroy worms.” Decodlions of the wood and bark 
are wholly difufed, on account of their being very naufe- 
©us and difagreeable to the homach. Pliny affirms that 
no animal will touch the feed of box. Gmelin relates that 
the branches are fatal to the camels that eat them. None 
of our animals feem to touch this tree. Corfican honey 
was fuppofed by the ancients to owe its infamy to the bees 
feeding on the box. 
The name varies very little from the Greek and Latin 
in the European languages ; beiny bucks or buchjbaum in 
German ; buxbom in Swedilh and Danilh ; buis or bouis in 
French ; buffo or bojfo in Italian ; box in Spanifb; bucho or 
buxo in Portuguefe. The Ruffians have adopted Jamfchil 
from the Tartars ; in Perfian it is JchimJchat ; in Turkilh 
tjdinntjckir ; in Japonefe ko-tfuge ; in Chinefe huynh-duong ; 
in Cochin-chinefe hoam-tuon. 
Propagation and Culture. All the varieties of box may 
be propagated by cuttings planted in autumn in a ffindy 
border, obferving to keep them watered until they have 
taken root, when they may be tranfplanted into the nur- 
fery, until they are fit for the purpofe intended. Thefe ent- 
tin‘>'s may be planted fo early as Auguft, but the belt time 
is when the autumnal rains fail. They (hould be a toot 
in length, and rather more than half (hould be planted in 
the ground, at the diftance of four inches from each other. 
A Hip of the laft year’s wood, dripped from an older 
branch, is an excellent fet, and there is little fear of its 
growing. The cuttings' or flips may ftand three years, 
and then be tranfplanted into the nurfery arty time between 
Auguft and April, choofing moift weather for the pur¬ 
pofe, if this work be performed early or late. In the nur- 
ferv the rows may be two feet afunder, and the plants a 
foot from each other in the rows. Dwarf box is increaled 
by parting the roots or planting the (lips ; but, as it makes 
fo great an increafe of itfelf, and fo eafily parts, it is hardly 
worth while to plant the fl’ips that have no roots. It is 
fo common, that it may be purchafed from the nurferies 
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at a cheap rate. The manner of planting it in edgings is 
well underftood by every working gardener. 
BUX'Y, a town of France, in the department of the 
Saone and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the di(- 
trief of Chalons: eight miles fouth-weft ot Chalons fur 
Saone. 
To BUY, v. a. prefer. I bought-, 1 have bought. ; \_bicgean , 
Sax.] To purchale ; to acquire by paying a price; to ob¬ 
tain tor money, or fomething equivalent; to procure by 
(ale, not gift or theft.—They nmft buy up no corn grow¬ 
ing within twelve miles of Geneva, that fo the filling of 
their magazines may not prejudice their market. Adclijon. 
—’Fo procure fome advantage by fomething that delerves 
it, or at fome price: 
Pent to linger 
But with a grain a day, 1 would not buy 
Their mercy at the price of one fair word. Shakefp. 
To regulate by money : in this fenfe it has particles annex¬ 
ed.—What pitiful things are power, rhetoric, or riches, 
w hen they would terrify, diffuade, or buy cjf confidence ’ 
South. 
To BUY, v. n. To treat about a purchafe.—I will buy 
with you, fell with you, talk with you, walk with you, 
and fo following. Shahefpeare. 
“ To Buy a pig in a poke.” To buy a thing without 
feeing or looking on it. The French lay, Acheter chat cn 
poche. T he Italians fay, Comperar la gatla in facco, ‘To 
buy a cat in a bag.’ That is, to buy a thing without look¬ 
ing at it, or enquiring into the value of it. 
BUY DE MORNAS (Claude), burns at Lyons, and 
died at Paris in 1783. This author is principally known 
by an Atlas of Geography and Hiftory, Paris 1762 and 
1770, 4V0IS. 4to. It is a valuable work for the ufes of 
education, as geography and hiftory go hand in hand in it. 
He alfo publiftred a Cofmography on the fame plan, 1770. 
BUY'ER,yi He that buys; a purchaser.—When a piece- 
of art is fet before us, let the firft caution be, not to a Ik 
who made it, left the fame of the author do captivate the 
fancy of the buyer. IVotton. 
“The Buyer wants a hundred eyes, the feller but 
one.” Chi compra ha bifogno di cent' occhii, chi vende n’ hd 
ajjaidi uno. It. Or, according to the I.atins, Caveat emptor , 
‘ Let the buyer look to himfelf.’ The feller knows the 
good or bad qualities of his commodities, and has more 
need of his tongue than his eyes. Whereas the buyer 
cannot be too watchful in this deceiving age, in which 
tricking in trade is but too much looked upon as warrant¬ 
able cunning, and over-reaching palfes for wit. 
BUY'ING THE REFU'SAL, is giving money for the 
right or liberty of purchasing a thing at a fixed price, in 
a certain time to come; chiefly ufed in dealing for (hares 
in flock. This is fometimes alfo called by a cant name, 
buying the bear.. 
BUY'ING THE SMALL POX, an appellation given 
to a method of procuring that difeafe by an operation ft mi- 
lar to inoculation ; frequent in Wales, where it has oh- 
tained time out of mind. It is performed either by rub¬ 
bing (bme of the pus taken out of a puftule of a variolous 
perfon on the (kin, or by making a pundture in the (kin 
with a pin dipped in the pus. 
BUYTRA'GO, a town of Spain, in New Caftile, on 
tire confines of Old Caftile, fituated on the fmall river 
Lozoya; formerly an epifcopal city; celebrated for (he 
wool colledled in its environs; thirty-fix miles north of 
Madrid, and eighteen eaft of Segovia. 
BUY'TRON, a town of Spain, in Andalufia: twenty- 
feven miles north-weft of Seville. 
BU'ZA, a town of Tranfilvan'ia : fixteen miles north- 
north-eaft of Clan fen burg. 
BUZANCOI'S, or Buzancois, a town of France, in 
the department of the Indre, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftritft of Chateauroux : eleven miles weft-north- 
weft of Chateauroux, and twelve eaft-fouth-eaft of Cha- 
tillon fur Indre. 
3 BUZANCY', 
