Block
Block, The Name Given To A Pulley, Or System Of Pulleys, Mounted In A Frame Or Shell, But Considering Them As Detached From The Ropes Which Run Through Them. When Speaking Of The Block With Its Rope, The Seaman Uses The Phrase Of A Tackle Of Single Or Double Blocks ...
Block Machinery
Block Machinery Immense Number Of Blocks Employed In The Navy, And The Great Importance Of Having Them Accu Rately And Substantially Made, In Order To Insure Their Ready Performance In Every Unfavourable Situation Which The Tackling Of A Ship Is Exposed To In Bad Weather, Render The Manufacture Of These ...
Blockade
Blockade. See Military Tactics. In Chemistry, Mineralogy, And The Arts, Is An Extremely Useful Instrument, Employed To Raise An Intense Heat By The Flame Of A Lamp Or Candle. It Operates By Throwing A Rapid Current Of Air Through The Flame, And By This ::scans Urging It Violently Against The ...
Blood Letting
Blood-letting In The Horse Is For The Most Part A Simple Operation, And One Unattended With Dan Ger; Hence The Practice Among Farriers, Grooms, And Horsemen Of All Denominations. The Vein Running Along The Side Of The Neck, From The Head To The Chest, Called The Jugular, Is The One ...
Blood Spavin
Blood-spavin Is A Soft Fluctuating Tumour, Ab Surdly So Called, Simply Because It Occupies Nearly The Same Situation As The True Or Bone Spavin. In Fact, It Is Not A Disease At All: It Is Simply A Dilatation Of The Vein As It. Crosses The Inner And Inferior Part Of ...
Blowing
Blowing, An Operation By Which A Continued Stream Of Air Is Projected With Great Force And Veloci Ty Into A Furnace, For The Purpose Of Increasing Its Combustion. When Large Bellows Are Employed For This Purpose, Or When The Air Is -pumped From A Cylinder Directly Into The Furnace, It ...
Blowing Engine
Blowing Engine, Is A Machine For Forcing Air With Great Velocity Into A Furnace In Order To Increase The Combustion And Is Now Used In All The Practical Operations Of Metallurgy. The Machine First Employed For This Purpose Was A Pair Of Leather Bellows Wrought By The Hand; But When ...
Boat
Boat, •life. The Hazard To Which Mariners .are Incessantly Exposed, And The Helpless Condition Of Mankind Struggling With An Element Speedily Destruc Tive Of Existence, Have Led To Many Ingenious Contri Vances For The Purpose Of Averting Danger. Though We Cannot But Lament That The Expedients Resorted To Have So ...
Bohemia
Bohemia, A Kingdom In Europe, Forming Part Of The Austrian Dominions, And Bounded On The West By Part Of The Eledtorate Of Saxony, The Principality Of Culembach, And The Upper Palatinate ; On The North By Misnia, Lusatia, And Silesia ; On The East By Moravia, Sile Sia, And The ...
Boionia Bologna
Bologna, Boionia, Bononia, Or Felsina, A City Of Italy, Formerly The Capital Of The Duchy Of Bo Logna, But Now The Chief Place Of The Department Of Reno, Is Situated In A .beautiful Plain At The Foot Of The Apennines; On The Rivers Savona And Reno, The Former Of Which ...
Bokiiara Buchara
Buchara, Bokiiara, Or Bocan, A City Of Asia, In Great Bucharia, From Which That Country Derives Its Name, Is Situated On The River Sogd, About 100 Miles West From Samarcand. It Stands On A Rising Ground, And Is Surrounded With A Slender Wall Of Earth. It Is Large And Populous, ...
Bombay
Bombay, An Island On The Western Coast Of In Dia, And The Seat Of One Of The English Presidencies. It Is Situated, According To Mr Howe's Observations, In 18° 68' North Lat., An,d'72° 38' East Long.; And Is About Seven Miles In Length, And Twenty-one In Circumference. This Island Was ...
Bond
Bond, In Law, Is A Deed, Or Written Obligation, Person Binds Himself, His Heirs, Executors, And Administrators, To Pay A Certain Sum Of Money, Or Perform Some Other Act, In Favour Of Another, Against A Day Appointed. A Bond In This Simple Form Is Call Ed A Sinale One (simpler ...
Bondou
Bondou, A Kingdom In Africa, Situated In W. Long. 11° 50', N. Lat. 13° 53', Betwixt The Gambia And Senegal Rivers; And Bounded On The East, By Bambouk ; On The South-east And South, By Tenda, And The Simbani Wilderness ; On The South-west, Woolli ; On The West, By ...
Bone
Bone, In Its Ordinary State, Is A Hard Inflexible Body, In The Human Species Of A Whitish Colour, Without Sensibility Or Contractility. And Very Little Subject To Decay. It Serves As A Defence And A Support To The Soft Parts Of The Body, Either Affording Them A Solid Case, In ...
Bonle
Bonle, In 1663, Seems To Have Been The First Who Emptoyed Tests To Detect The Substances Contained Ir, Mi Neral Waters. To These There Were Various Additions Rrvi-ic By Duelos. By Hierne, And Again I)} Boyle Ill 1678. In 1707 Geoffirov Pointed Out The Method Of P . Tiring The ...
Bonne
Bonne, The Ara Ubiorum, And The Dionia Ju Lia Bona Verona Of The Ancients, Was Formerly The Residence Of The Electors Of Cologne, But Is Now A Town Of France In The Department Of The Rhine And The Moselle. Bonne Is Most Beautifully Situated On The Left Bank Of The ...
Bonzes
Bonzes, A Name Given To The Priests And Devo Tees Of The God Fo, In China, Japan, And Tonquin, And Other Oriental Countries. They Are Distinguished By Different Names In The Different Countries Where Their Superstition Prevails. In Siam They Are Called Talapoins ; In Tartary, Lamas; Ho-chang In China ...
Book
Book May Be Defined, A Work Composed For The Purpose Of Communicating The Knowledge Or Ideas Of Its Author, On Any Subject, And With Any Design. The Immense Variety Of Topics Which Hunian Know Ledge Embraces, And Which Reason Or Fancy May Sug -gest,-renders It Necessary, For The Sake Of ...
Book Binding
Book-binding, The Art Of Sewing Together The Sheets Of A Book, And Securing Them With A Back And Side Boards. Binding Is Distinguished From Stitching, Which Is Merely Sewing The Leaves, Without Bands Or Backs ; And From Hay'binding, Which Consists In Se Curing The Back Only With Leather, The ...
Book Keeping
Book-keeping, Is The History Of Public Or Private Property In All Its Changes ; And Of The Causes Of These Changes, And Of The Increase Or Decrease Of Property Following From Them. The General History Of Property, Written In The Order Of Time, Is Called The Waste-book : When ,, ...
Boors
Boors, A ,,,:neral Appellation For The Russian Peasantry, Who Are Divided Into Two Great Classes, Dis Tinguished By The Names Of • Vassal Boors And Free Boors. It Is Necessary To Observe, However, That The Free Peasants, Though Generally Comprehended Among The Boors, Both In State Papers, And In The ...
Boring
Boring "maentriz May Be Defined To Be, Any Machine For Working A Borer, Or Tool, Which, By A. Rotatory Motion On An Axis, Cuts Out A Hollow Cylin Der In Any Substance Subjected To Its Action. The Carpenter's Whimble Or Crank, The Drill; Pulley, And Bow, Are, In This Sense, ...
Borneo
Borneo, Known Likewise By The Name Of Bona Fortuna, The Greatest And Most Important Of The Sunda Islands, Which Are Borneo, Sumatra, And Java, Was Supposed, Before The Discovery Of New Holland, To Be The Largest Island In The World. It Has The Philippine Islands On The North ; Java ...
Bornii0
Bornii0, A County In Switzerland, Lying At The Foot, And In The Midst Of The Rhetian Alps, Upon The Confines Of The Tyrol And The Grisons. Surrounded On Every Side By Lofty Mountains, It Has Only One Nar Row Opening Connecting It With The Valteline, And Apparently Formed By The ...
Bornou
Bornou, An Extensive Empire In The Interior Of Africa, Situated To The South-east Of Fezzan, And Bounded On The North By The Desart Of Bilma ; On The West By Nubia, Kuka, And Tagua ; On The South By Kanga And Begermee ; And On The East By Cassina, Zegzeg, ...
Borough
Borough, In The Law Of Scotland, Signifies A Corporate Body, Erected By Charter Of The Sovereign, And Consisting Of The Inhabitants Of A Certain District,, With Jurisdiction Annexed To It. Boroughs Hold Ei Ther Of The Crown, Or Of A Subject : Hence They Are Distinguished Into Boroughs Royal, And ...
Borough Courts
Borough-courts, Are Certain Courts Of Pri Vate And Special Jurisdiction, Held In Different Cities, Boroughs, And Crrporations, Throughout The Kingdom, By Prescription, Charter, Or Act Of Parliament. Of This Species Are The Sherig's Court, And Court (2f Hustings In London. (z) Borough-enolism, So Called In Contradistinc Tion, As It Were, ...
Borromean Islands
Borromean Islands, The Name Of Two Islands Called Isola Bella And Isola Madre, Situated. Ih The Most Western Bay Of The Lago Maggiore, Deriving Their General Name From The Family Of Bor Iomeo, To Whom They, Belonged. The Borromean Islands Have Been Described With The Greatest Enthusiasm By Bishop Burnet ...
Borrowing Upon Annuities
Annuities, Borrowing Upon, A Mode Of Raising Money, Occasionally Resorted To By Governments, For The Purpose Of Raising Supplies. Money May Be Either Raised On A Perpetual Annuity, Or On An Annuity For A Term Of Years. When It Is Raised By A Perpetual Annuity, It Will Return To The ...