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pleas without leav?. A collection of flatutes, ordonnances, 
regulations, monuments, and prerogatives, of the king¬ 
dom of Bazoche, were publifhed at Paris in 1654. 
BAZO'CHES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Orne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift ot 
Argentan : nine miles north-weft of Argentan. 
Bazoches, a town of France, in the department of 
the Loiret, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt of 
Neuville-aux-Bois ; fix miles north ot Neuville. 
Bazoches, a town of France, in the department of 
the Aifne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of 
Soiftons : four leagues eaft of Soiftons. 
BAZO'GE (La), a town of France, in the department 
of the Sarte, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of 
le Mans : fix miles north of le Mans. 
BAZOU'GKRS, a town of France, in the department 
of the Mayene, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Laval: two leagues and a half fouth-eaft of Laval. 
BAZOU'GES LA PEROUSE, a town of France, in 
the department of the 11 le and Vilaine, and chief place of 
a canton, in the diftrift of Dol: three leagues and a quar¬ 
ter fouth-fouth-eaft of Dol, and one and a quarter fouth- 
weft of Antrain. 
BDEL'LIUM,/ [< 3 &aX»o», from nVia Arab.] A gum 
refin, fu[>pofed to be of African origin. The beft bdel¬ 
lium is of a yellovviih brown or dark brown colour, ac¬ 
cording to its age ; unftuous to the touch, brittle, but 
f'0011 foftening, and growing tough betwixt the fingers; 
in fome degree tranfparent, not unlike myrrh ; of a bit- 
terilh tafte, and a moderately ftrong fmell. It does not 
eafily take flame, and when let on fire foon goes out. In 
turning it crackles, owing to its aqueous humidity; but 
cannot be faid to explode, much lefs to explode like 
gunpowder, as Herman Valentini reports. Near halt of 
its fubftance diifolves either in water or in fpirit of wine ; 
but the tinCture made with fpirit is fomewhat ftronger, 
and by much more agreeable. Vinegar, or verjuice, dif- 
folves it wholly. The fimple gum is a better medicine 
than any preparation from it. Though one of the weakeft 
of the deobftruent gums, it is fometimes ufed as a peCtoral 
and an emmenagogue with advantage. The college, how¬ 
ever, have rejected it. 
BDEL'LUS, / [from to break wind.] A dif- 
charge of wind by the anus. 
BDELYG'MIA,/ [from to break wind.] Any 
filthy and naufeous odour. 
To BE, v. n. To have fome certain ftate, condition, 
quality, or accident; as, the man is wife. 
Be what thou hop’ll to be, or what thou art, 
Refign to death, it is not worth enjoying. Shakcfpeare. 
—To fay a man has a clear idea of quantity, without know¬ 
ing how great it is, is to fay, he has the clear idea of the 
number of the fands, who knows not how many they be. 
Locke —It is the auxiliary verb by which the verb paffive 
is- formed : 
The wine of life is drawn, and th^ meer lees 
Is left this vault to brag of. Shakefpeart. 
To exift; to have exiftence : 
To be, contents his natural defire ; 
He alks no angel’s wing, nor feraph’s fire. Pope. 
.To have fomething by appointment or rule.—If ail poli¬ 
tical power be derived only from Adam, and be to'defcend 
only to his fucceffive heirs, by the ordinance of God, and 
divine inftitution, this is aright antecedent and paramount 
to all government. Locke. 
Let Be. Do not meddle with ; leave untouched : 
Let be, faid he, my prey. Dryden. 
BEACH,/. The fliore, particularly that part that is 
daftied by the waves; the ftrand.—They find the wafhed 
amber further out upon the beaches and (hores, where it 
has been longer expofed. Woodward. 
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BEACITED, adj. Expofed to the waves. 
BEA'CHY, adj. Having beaches. 
B kachy-Head, a promontory of England, and higheft 
land on the fouth coaft of Suftex, which riles perpendi¬ 
cular over the cliffs : nine leagues weft-fouth-weft of 
Dungenefs. 
BEA'CON, / [ beacon, Sax. from been, a fignal, and 
bccnan, whence beckon, to make a fignal.] Something rail¬ 
ed on an eminence, to be fired on the approach of an ene¬ 
my, to alarm the country : 
No flaming beacons caft their blaze afar, 
The dreadful fignal of invafive war. Gqy. 
Marks eredled, or lights made in the night, to direct na¬ 
vigators in their courfes, and warn them from rocks, dial- 
lows, and fandbanks. The erection of beacons, light- 
houfes, and fea-marks, is a branch of the royal preroga¬ 
tive. The king hath the exclufive power, by commidion 
under his great leal, to caufe them to be ereCted in fit and 
convenient places, as well upon the lands of the fubjedb 
as upon the demefnes of the crown; which dower is ufu- 
ally veiled by letters patent in the office of lord high ad¬ 
miral, or the admiralty board. And by fiat. 8 Eliz. c. 13, 
the corporation of the Trinity-houfe are impowered to fet 
up any beacons or fea-marks wherever they dial! think 
them neceflary ; and if the owner of the land or any other 
perfon dial} deftroy them, or diall take down any fteeple, 
tree, or other known fea-mark, he diall forfeit iool. or, 
in cafe of inability to pay it, diall be ipfo facto outlawed. 
BEA'CONAGE,/ Money paid towards the mainte¬ 
nance of a beacon. 
BEA'CONSFIELD, a market-town of Buckingham- 
fhire, feated on a hill in the road between London and 
Oxford. It has feveral good inns, though not above 100 
houfes. Market on Thurfdays ; and two fairs chiefly for 
cattle, viz. on Candlemas-day, and on Afcenfion-day. It 
is thirty-one miles fouth-eaft from Oxford, and twenty- 
three from Lontlon. 
BEAD,/! [ beade, prayer, Sax.] Small globes or balls 
of glafs or pearl, or other fubftance, ftrting upon a thread, 
and ufed by the Romanics to count their prayers; from 
whence the phrafes to tell beads, or to be at one’s beads, is 
to be at prayer : 
Thy voice I feem in every hymn to hear, 
With ev’ry bead I drop too foft a tear. Pope. 
Little balls worn about the neck for ornament. Any glo¬ 
bular bodies : 
Thy fpirit within thee hath been fo at war, 
That beads of fwe.it have flood upon thy brow. Skakejp. 
Bead,/, in architecture, is a round moulding, carved 
in fhort emboffments, like beads in necklaces: and fome- 
times an aftragal is thus carved. There is alfo a fort of 
plain bead often fet on the edge of each facia of an archi¬ 
trave ; as alfo fometimes on the lining board of a door- 
cafe, the upper edge of fkirting boards, &c. 
Bead,/, in aftaying, the fmall ball or mafs of pure me¬ 
tal feparated from the fcoria, and feen diftinCt and pure in 
the middle of the coppel while in the fire. 
Bf.ad-Makers, called by the French paternojlriers, 
are thofe employed in the making, flringing, and felling, 
of beads. At Paris there were three companies of pater- 
noftriers, or bead-makers ; one who made them of glafs or 
cryftal ; another in wood and horn ; and the third in am¬ 
ber, coral, jet, &c. Thefe beads were mod in ufe before 
printing, when poor perfons could not go to the charge of 
a manufeript book : though they are ftill ufed in many 
parts of the world, where the Roman Catholic religion 
prevails. They are not allowed to be brought into Eng¬ 
land, or any fuperilitious things, to be ufed here, under 
the penalty of a preemunire, by flat. 13 Eliz. c. 2. 
Bead-Proof,/. A term ufed by diftillers to exprefs 
that fort of proof of the ftandard ftrength of fpirituoiis li¬ 
quors, which confifts in their having, when Ihaken in a 
phial, or poured from on high into a glafs, a crown of bub¬ 
bles.. 
