BONA DEA, in Roman mythology, a goddess concerning whom a great diver sity of opinion prevails, even among the writers of antiquity. She is represented by Macrobius, who treats at length upon her nature and worship, as synonymous with the Grecian Rhos or Cybele. The Bona Pea had two temples at Rome ; but her rites were generally solemnized in the house of the consul or prmtor. In the celebration of these rites only women participated, thereby indicating the pecu liar chastity of the goddess. But a perusal of the ancient writers will convince the most skeptical that the exclusion of men from the solemnities of the Ilona Des was purely nominal, and that in the course of time the grossest licentiousness was practised during their celebration. BOND, in architecture, the connection of one stone or brick with another by lapping them over each other in carrying up work, so that an inseparable mass of building may be formed, which could not be the case if every vertical joint was over that below it.—BoNo, in law, a
deed whereby the obligator, or party binding himself, obliges himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum of money, called the penalty, to another (the obligee) at a day appointed.—BOND, ENGLISH, in ar chitecture, that disposition of bricks in a wall wherein the courses are alternately composed of headers, or bricks laid with their heads or MIS towards the faces of the wall, and in the superior and inferior courses of stretchers or bricks, with their lengths parallel to the faces of the walls, as in the margin, in which the'upper is called the heading, and the lower the stretching eourse—BOND, FLEMISH, in architecture, that disposition of brieks in a wall wherein each course has headers and stretchers alternately, as in the margin.—BOND OR LAP OF A SLATE, in architecture, the distance between the nail of the under slate and the lower edge of the upper slate.