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fpecies is yet little known, and according to Schwartz has 
been feenonly by Plumier, and refts only upon his autho¬ 
rity. Mr. Miller fays, that it is very common in feveral 
of the warm itlands in America, whence he has received 
the feeds. As there is no fpecimen of it in his herbarium, 
which is now in the pofleflion of Sir Jofeph Banks, we can¬ 
not form a judgment whether the plant which he fpeaks of 
might be that of Plumier, or the fecond fpecies, difcovered 
in Hifpanolia by Schwartz. 
2. Bellonia fpinofa: thorny; leaves ovate, angular, 
tooth-ferrate, peduncles axillary, one-flowered. 
Propagation and Culture. It is propagated by feeds, which 
fliould be fown early in the fpring, in a pot filled, with 
light frefh earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of tanners 
bark, obferving to water it frequently, as the earth ap¬ 
pears dry; but you mu ft be careful not to wafh the feeds 
out of the ground. ' When the plants are come up half an 
inch high, they fliould be carefully tranfplanted into pots 
tilled with light frefh earth, and plunged into the hot-bed 
again, obferving to w’ater and fhade them until they have 
taken root; after which time they fhould have air admit¬ 
ted to them every day, when the weather is warm ; they 
nnift alfo be frequently watered. When the plants have 
-filied thefe pots with their roots, they (hould be carefully 
ftiaken out of them, and their roots trimmed, and put into 
larger pots filled with light frefh earth, and plunged into 
the hot-bed again. In warm weather they fliould have 
free air admitted to them every day ; but in autumn they 
muft be plunged into the bark-ftove, and treated in the 
fame manner as other tender exotic plants. The fecond 
year thefe plants will fometimes flower, but they rarely 
produce good feeds in this climate; however, they may 
be propagated by cuttings in the fuminer months, provided 
they are planted in light earth on a moderate hot-bed, 
and carefully watered and fliaded until they have taken 
root. Thefe plants muft be conftantly kept in the ftove, 
and fliould have a large fhare of free air in warm weather; 
but, if they are fet abroad, they will not thrive here. 
BELLO'RI (John Peter), of Rome ; a celebrated an¬ 
tiquary and connoiffeur in the polite arts. Author of the 
lives of the modern painters, architects, and fculptors, 
and of other works on antiquities and medals. He died in 
169 6 . 
BELI.O'VACHI, anciently a people of Gallia Belgica, 
reckoned the braveft of the Belgce ; now the Bcauvafis, in 
the ifle of France. 
To BEL'LOW, v. n. [bcllan , Sax.] To make a noife as 
a bull : 
What bull dares bellow , or what flieep dares bleat, 
Within the lion’s den ? Dryden. 
To make any violent outcry. To vociferate : in this fenfe 
it is a word of contempt: 
The full fat captain, with a hound’s*deep throat, 
Would bellow out a laugh in a bafe note. Dryden. 
To roar as the fea in a florin, or as the wind ; to make any 
continued noife, that may caufe terror: 
The rifing rivers float the nether ground ; 
And rocks the bellowing voice of boiling feas rebound. 
Dryden. 
BEL'LOWS,yi [bilig, Sax. perhaps it is corrupted from 
bellies, the wind being contained in the hollow, or belly. 
It has no fengular ; for we ufually fay, a pair of bellows : 
but Dryden has ufed bellows as a fingular.~\ The inflrument 
ufed to blow the fire.—The lungs, as bellows, fupply a 
force of breath ; and the afpera arteria is as the nofe of bel¬ 
lows , to collect and convey the breath. //otor.—^In the fol¬ 
lowing paflage it is fingular : 
Thou neither, like a bellows, fwell’ft thy face, 
As if thou wert to blow the burning mafs 
Of melting ore. Dryden. 
Bellows are of various conftructions, according to their 
different purpofes; but in general they are compelled of 
BEL 
two flat boards, fometimes of an oval, fometimes of a tri¬ 
angular, figure : two or more hoops, bent according to the 
figure of the boards, are placed between them ; a piece of 
leather, broad in the middle and narrow at both ends, is 
nailed on the edges of the boards, which it thus unites to¬ 
gether ; as alfo on the hoops which fepurate the boards, 
that the leather may the eafier open and fold again: a tube 
of iron, brafs, or copper, is fattened to the undermoft 
board, and there is a valve within, that covers the holes 
in the under board to keep in the air. Anacharfis the Scy¬ 
thian is recorded as the inventor of bellows. Their ac¬ 
tion, as above remarked, bears a near affinity to that of 
the lungs j and what we call blowing in the latter, affords 
a good illuflration of what is called refpiring in the former. 
Animal life it lei f may on tome occalions be fubfifled by 
blowing into the lungs with a pair of bellows. Dr. Hooke’s 
. experiment to this effect is famous: having laid the thorax 
of a dog bare, by cutting away the ribs and diaphragm, peri¬ 
cardium, &c. and having cut oft'the afpera arteriabelow the 
epiglottis, and bound it on the nofe of a bellows, he found, 
that as he blowed the dog recovered, and as he ceafed 
fell convulfive ; and thus was the animal kept alternately 
alive and dead for more than an hour. There are bellow’s 
made wholly of wood, without any leather about them ; 
one of which is preferved in the repofitory of the Royal 
Society ; and Dr. Plot deferibes another in the copper* 
works at Elfdon in StafFordfhire. Ant. della Fruta con¬ 
trived a fubftitute for bellows, to fpare their expence in 
the fufion of metals. This is called by Kircher camera 
aolia, and in England the water-bellows ; where water fall¬ 
ing through a funnel into a clofe vetfel, fends forth fo much 
air continually as blows the fire. See Furnace. 
Smiths and founders bellows, whether tingle or double, 
are wrought by means of a rocker, with a tiring or chain 
fattened to them, which the workman pulls. The bel¬ 
lows pipe is fitted into that of the tewel. One of the 
boards is fixed, fo as not to play at all. By drawing down 
the handle of the rocker, the moveable board rifes, and 
by means of a weight on the top of the upper board it 
finks again. The bellows of forges and furnaces of mines 
ufually receive their motion from the wheels of a water¬ 
mill. Others, as the bellows of enamellers, are wrought 
by means of one or more fteps or treddles under the work¬ 
man’s feet. The bellows of organs are worked by a man 
called the blower-, and in fmall organs by the foot of the 
player. Butchers have alfo a kind of bellows of a peculiar 
make, by which they bloat or blow up their meat when 
killed, in order to give it a finer appearance. 
Bone Bellows, (pvarl-opic ormoi, occur in Herodotus 
for tliofe applied by the Scythians to the genitals of mares, 
in order to diftend the uterus, and by this compreflion make 
them yield a greater quantity of milk. 
HcJJian Bello ws,f. A contrivance for driving air into 
a mine, for the refpiration of the miners. This M. Papin 
improved, changing its cylindrical form into a fpiral one. 
Hydrofatic Bellows. See Hydrostatics. 
Bellows Rocks, in the Atlantic, near the weft coaft 
of Ireland, and county of Galway. Lat. 53. 19. N. Ion. 10. 
4. W. Greenwich. 
BEL'LUINE, adj. \belluinus, Lat.] Beaftly ; belonging 
to a beaft ; favage ; brutal.—If human actions were not 
to be judged, men would have no advantage over beafts. 
At this rate, the animal and belluine life would be the beft, 
Atterbury. 
BELLUNE'SE, a fmall country of Italy, belonging to 
the republic of Venice, making part of the marquifate of 
Trevifa, bounded on the north by the Cadorni and part of 
Friuli, on the eaft by a large foreft which feparates it from 
Friuli, on the fouth by the Trevifan and Feltrin, and on 
the welt by the bifliopric of Trent. 
BELLU'NO, a town of Italy, and capital of the Bellu- 
nefe, and fee of a biftiop, fuffragan of the archbiftiop of 
Udina, lituated on thePiava: forty-three miles north of 
Venice, and forty-eight eaft of Trent, Lat. 46. 10. N. Ion, 
30. 48. E. Ferro. 
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