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humane d-ifpofition, and friendly to ft rangers. The lar¬ 
ged illand is,about feven or eight leagues in circumference, 
with good aftchorage. Lat. 15.0. S. Ion. 208.45. E. Ferro. 
BAUMES-LES DA'MES, or Baume-les-No'nes, a 
townof France, and principal place ot a di ft riel, in the de¬ 
partment of Doubs, on the river Doubs: five leaguesN.E. 
of Befancon, and 8§ north of Puntarlier. • Fivemiles from 
this town is a remarkable cavern, vrhofe entrance is twen¬ 
ty paces wide ; and, after defeending 300 paces, the gate 
of a grotto is feen, twice as large as that of a city. The 
grotto is thirty-five paces deep, tixty wide, and is covered 
with a kind of vaulted roof, from which water continual¬ 
ly drops. There is alfo a (mall brook, faid to be frozen 
in fummer, but not in winter; and at the bottom are ftones 
that exactly referable candied citron-peel. When the 
peafants perceive a ntift riling out of this cave, they af¬ 
firm that it will rain the next day. 
BAU'MEN, or Bauman, a cave of Lower Saxony in 
Germany, about a mile from Wermigerode, and eighteen 
from Collar. The entrance is through a rock; and fo 
narrow, that not more than one perfon can pafs at a time. 
There are feveral paths in it, which the peafants have 
turned up, in fearching for the bones of animals, which 
they fell for unicorn’s horns. Some think this cave reach¬ 
es as far as Goflar ; and the fkeletons of men have been 
found in it, who are fiippofed to have perifned by being 
loft in its turnings and windings. 
BAUMGAR'TEN, a.town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Auftria, fix miles weft of Feltfburg. 
Baumgarten, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Chrudim, three miles weft of Politzka. 
BAUM'HOLDER, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Upper Rhine, and duchy of Deux Fonts, ten miles 
weft of Lautereck, and twenty-five north of Deux Ponts. 
BAUMSWALDT', a foreft of Prullia, on the borders 
of Lithuania, about ten leagues long and feven wide. 
BAUNACH', a townof Germany, in thecircleof Fran¬ 
conia, and bilhopric of Bamberg, near the river Mayne: 
feven miles north of Bamberg. 
BAUR (William), an eminent Flemifii painter, born at 
Strafburgh. He was fome time at Rome, where his ftu- 
dies were wholly employed upon architecture and land- 
fcapes. He painted fmall figures in diftemper on vellum. 
He etched with great,fpirit. His largeft works are in the 
hiftorical way; and he has given us many of the lieges and 
battles which wafted Flanders in the 16th century. They 
are rather plans than pictures; and have little to recom¬ 
mend them but hiftoric truth, and the freedom of the exe¬ 
cution. He died at. Vienna in 1640. 
BAU'RACyi [jrvo Arab.] Nitre; borax. The mi¬ 
neral fixed alkaline fait. 
BAURIN'KEL, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and county of Lingen, fix miles north-feaft of 
Lingen. 
B AUSCHWITZ', a town of Silefia, in the principality 
of Neyfze, eight miles eaft-north-eaft of Neyfze. 
BAUSK, a. town of Courland, on the river Muza. 
Guftavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, took it from the 
Poles in the year 1625, and in the year 1705 the czar be¬ 
came marter of it, after a bloody battle between the Ruf¬ 
fians and the Swedes. It is fix leagues fouth of Mittau. 
BAUTRU'E,'a celebrated French writer, and one of 
the firft members of the French academy; born in 1588, 
and died in 1665. _ 
B AUTSCPP, a town of Moravia, in the circle of Pre- 
rau, eighteen miles north of Prerau. 
BAUT'ZEN, or Budis'sen, a town of Germany, and 
capital of Upper Lufatia, (formerly imperial, but now 
fubjeCt to the eleCtor of Saxony,) on the river Spree. It 
is thirty miles eaft-north-eaft of Drefden, and feventy-fix 
eaft of Leipfic. Lat. 51.11.N. Ion. 32. 14. E. Ferro. 
BAUX (Les), a town of France, in the department of 
the Mouths of the Rhone, and chief place of a canton, in 
the difiriCt of Tarafcon, formerly the chief place of an 
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independent barony. It is two leagues fouth-eaft of Ta¬ 
rafcon, and three north-eaft of Arles. 
BAW'BLE,y. [ Baubdlum , in barbarous Latin, fignified 
a jewel, or, any thing valuable, but not necelfary. Omnia. 
baubella fua dedit Othoni. Hoveden. Probably from beau, 
Fr.] A gewgaw ; atriflingpie.ee of finery ; a thing of 
more fhew thanufe; a trifle. It is in general, whether 
applied to perfons or things, a term of contempt. 
BAW'BLINGT adj. Trifling; contemptible: a word 
not now vfed, except in converfation. 
BAW'COCK ,[ [perhaps from beau, or baude , and 
cock.] A familiar word, which feerns to fignify the fame as 
Jine fellow. —Why, how now, bawcocii ? how doll thou, 
chuck ? Shakcfpcare. 
BAWD,/ [Some think the word is derived from the, 
old French baude , ‘bold or impudent;’ though Verftegaii 
has a conjeChire which would carry it higher, viz. from 
bathe, anciently written bade. In which fenfe bawd origi¬ 
nally imported no more than bath-holder, as if bagnios 
had anciently been the chief feenes of fuch proftitution. j 
A perfon who keeps a place of proftitution, or makes a 
trade of debauching women, and procuring or conducting 
criminal intrigues. The Romans had their male as well 
as female bawds; the former denominated lenones and proa. 
go : gi, among us panders ; the latter, lence. Donatus, fpeak- 
ing of the habits of the ancient characters in comedy, 
fays, Lcno paliis varii color is utitur. But the ancient lenones , 
it is to be obferved, furniflied boys as well as girls for ve¬ 
nereal purpofes. Another fort of thefe merchants or 
dealers in human flefh were called mavgones , by the Greeks 
a.vfyoy.carn'Koi, who fold eunuchs, Haves, &c. By a law of. 
Conftantine, bawds were to be punifhed by pouring melt¬ 
ed lead down their throats. 
The profellioir of a bawd was reprefented by the an¬ 
cients as an old woman having a letter-cafe at her girdle, 
and at her feet a bafket filled with flowers, jewels, and o- 
ther toys; blowing up with a pair of bellows two hearts, 
which Cupid is kindling with his torch. 
To Bawd, v. n. To procure; to provide gallants with 
ftrmnpets.—Leucippe is agent for the king’s lull, ahd 
bawds, at the fame time, for the whole court. Addifon. 
Bawd-Money, f in botany. See YEthusa Meum. 
BAW'DER, a river of England, which runs into the 
Taes, about three miles north-north-weft of Barnard Caf- 
tle, in the county of Durham. 
BAW'DILY, adv. Obfcenely. 
BAW'DINESS,/. Obfcenenefs. 
BAW'DRY,/ [contracted from bawdery , the practice 
of a bawd.] A wicked practice of procuring and bring¬ 
ing whores and rogues together. Obfcenity; unchafte' 
language.—Cheating and bawdry go together in the world. 
D Ef range. 
BAW'DY, adj. Obfcene; unchafte: generally applied 
to language: 
The bawdy wind, that kifles all it meets, 
Is bulb’d within the hollow mine of earth,' 
And-will not hear’t. Shafiefp'eare. 
Bawdy-House, [lupanar, fornix.] A houfeof ill-fame, 
kept for the refort and commerce of lewd people of both 
fexes. The keeping of a bawdy-houTe comes under the 
cognizance of the temporal law, as a common nnfance, not 
only in refpeCt of its endangering the public peace by 
drawing together diffbiute and debauched perfons, and 
promoting quarrels, but alfo in refpeCt of its tendency to 
corrupt the manners of the people, by an open profeflion 
of lewdnefs. Thofe who keep bawdy-houfes are punilh* 
ed with fine and imprifonment; and all fuch infamous pu- 
nilhment, as pillory, &c. as the court in diferetion fhall in¬ 
flict : and a lodger, who keeps only a Angle room for the 
ufe of bawdry, is indictable' for keeping a bawdy-houfe. 
1 Salk. 382. Perfons reforting to a bawdy-houfe are pu- 
nifhable, and they may be bound to their good behaviour, 
Sec. But, if one be indiCted for keeping or frequenting a 
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