my niece will ever endure fuch a borachio! you're ablulute borachio. Congreve.

(2.) BORACHIO is the name of a fort of leathern botics, ufed in Spain for bringing wine from the mountains: whence the metaphor, § 1. BORÆUM, in ancient geography, the name gen by Ptolemy to the promontory on the coaft ANTRIM, in Ireland, now called ST HELEN'S

BORAGO, a fynonime of the ANCHUSA. BORAK. [Arab. i. e. Shining.] See ALBORAK. {1}* BORAMEZ. n.. The Scythian lamb, generally known by the name of Agnus Scythicus.—Much wonder is made of the boramez, that ftrange plant animal, or vegetable lamb of Tartary, which wares delight to feed on; which hath the shape of a limb, affordeth a bloody juice upon breaking, and liveth while the plants be confumed about it. Brown's Vulgar Errours.

(2.) BORAMEZ. See AGNUS SCYTHICUS. BORASSUS, in botany, a genus of plants, defcribed by Linnæus, but not claffed. The male and female flowers grow on feparate plants, and give the plant fuch a different figure, that they are called by different names, in the Ilortus MaEbaricus; the male being called AMPANA, and the female CARIMPANA. The male has for the cup of its flower the whole compound fpatha, which is amentaceous and imbricated: the flower is ivided into 3 fegments, the petals being holbard, and of an oval figure: the ftamina are thick filaments, and the antheræ are thick and frated. In the female, the cup is the fame as the male, but the petals of the flower, which is divided into 3 parts, in the manner of the male, are very small, of a roundish figure, and remain When the pittil, &c. fall off. The germen of the pt is roundith; the flyics are 3, and fmall, and the tigmata are small; the fruit is a roundifh obthe berry, of a rigid ftructure, and containing with one cell; the feeds are 3, and of an oval Compressed figure.

L.* BORAX. n. f. [borax, low Latin.] An artifallat, prepared from fal armoniac, nitre, calched tartar, fea falt, and alum, diffolved in wine. It is principally used to folder metals, and fome Lanes an uterine ingredient in medicine. Quincy.

I BORAX, ACCOUNTS OF THE ORIGIN OF. Borax is a falt in appearance fimilar to alum, boht originally from the Eaft Indies in an impare itate, and afterwards purified in Europe. It long uncertain whether this falt was a natuor achitious fubftance; but it is now afcered that it is naturally produced in the mountes of Thibet, from whence other parts of the tem continent are fupplied. Mr Kirwan, in mineralogy, informs us, that Mr Grill Adamfent fome to Sweden in 1772, in a cryftalline as dug out of the earth in Thibet, where 48 cailed pounxa, my-poun, and houi-porn. It is d to have been found in Saxony in fome coalF. In the Phil. Tranf. vol. 77. we have two Cerent accounts of the place where it is found, and the manner of obtaining it. One of thefe is by William Blane, Efq; who tells us that in the language of the country it is called Savagah, and

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is brought into Indoftan from the mountains of Thibet. It is produced in Jumlate, about 50 days journey N. from Betowle, a small principa lity about 200 miles N. E. of Lucknow. The place where it is found is faid to be a small valley furrounded with fnowy mountains, in which is a lake about 6 miles in circumference; the water of which is constantly so hot that the hand cannot bear it for any time. Around this lake the ground is perfectly barren, not producing even a blade of grafs; and the earth is fo full of a faline matter, that after falls of rain or fnow it concretes in white flakes on the surface like the natron of Indoftan. On the banks of this lake, in winter when the falls of fnow begin, the earth is formed into fmall refervoirs fix inches high: when these are filled with fnow, the hot water from the lake is thrown upon it; which, together with the water from the melted fnow, remains in the refervoir, to be partly abforbed by the earth and partly evaporated by the fun; after which there remains at the botton a cake, fometimes half an inch thick, of crude borax, which is taken up for ufe. It can only be made in winter, because the falls of fnow are indifpenfably requifite, and also because the faline appearances upon the earth are strongest at that time. When once it has been made, it cannot be made again on the fame fpot, untill the fnow has fallen and diffolved 3 or 4 times, when the faline efflorescence appears as before. The borax, in this ftate, is carried from bill to hill upon goats, and paffes through many hands, which increases the difficulty of obtaining any authentic information concerning the original manufacture. When brought down from the hills, it is refined from its grofs impurities by boiling and cryftallization. Mr Blane could obtain no anfwer, from those who gave him this account, to any of his questions concerning the quality of the water and the mineral productions of the foil. All they could tell him was, that the water was very hot, very foul, and as it were very greafy; that it boils up in many places, and has a very offenfive fmell; and that the foil is remarkable only for the faline appearances already mentioned. The country in general produces confiderable quantities of iron, copper, and fulphur; and Mr Blane was affured that ail the borax in India came from this place. With respect to the credibility of the account, he obferves, firft, "That borax is really brought from the mountains of Thibet is certain, as he himself often had occafion to fee large quantities of it brought down, and had purchased it from the Tartar mountaineers, who brought it to market; 2dly, he had never heard of its being produced or brought into India from any other quarter; and, 3dly, if it was made on the coaft of Coromandel, he thinks there can be little doubt but that the whole procefs would have been fully inquired into, and given to the public long before this time." The other account is from father Jofeph de Ravato, prefident of the million of Thibet, and fent in a letter to the Royal Society, communicated by Jofeph Banks, Eiq; He pretends also to have had his intelligence from a native of the country, though it differs confiderably from that of Mr Blane. "In the province of Marme (fays he), 28 days journey N. of Nepal, and as to the W. of

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2. BORAX, CRUDE, tincal, or chryfocolla, comes from Perfia, in greenish maffes, of a greafy feel, or in opaque cryftals of an olive green, which are fix-fided prifms terminated by irregular pritms.There are two varieties of thefe crystals, differing in magnitude. This falt is very impure by the addition of foreign matters. Mr Kirwan tells us, that this kind is called brute borax, tincal, or chry focella, and that it is in the form of large, flat, hexangular, or irregular cryftals, of a dull white or greenish colour, greasy to the touch ; or in fmali cryftals, as it were cemented together by a rancid yellowifh, oily fubftance, intermixed with mari, gravel, and other impurities. Mr Engestrom has a fufpicion that the tincal is only the refiduum of the mother liquor of borax evaporated to dryness and that the greafinefs arifes from its being mixed with butter milk, to prevent its efflorescence.

3. BORAX, DUTCH, or purified borax, is in the form of portions of transparent cryftals of confiderable purity. Pyramids with feveral facets may be obferved among them, the cryftallization appearing to have been interrupted. "This form (fays Mr Fourcroy) thows to a certainty that the Dutch refine this falt by folution and crystallization."-Mr Kirwan fays, that it is purified by folution, filtration, and inftallization: ; and the cryftals thus obtained are calcined, to free them ftill farther from greafinefs; and then diffolved, filtered and cryftallized, a fecond time. Some times more mineral alkali is added, as tincal faid to contain an excess of fedative falt. Mr Fourcroy tells us, that a purified borax, not inferior to the Dutch, but perhaps even of greater purity, is prepared by fome chemifts at Paris.

Laffa, the capital of Thibet, there is a vale about 8 miles broad. In a part of this vale there are two villages, the inhabitants of which are wholly employed in digging the borax, which they fell into Thibet and Nepal. Near thefe two vilJages there is a pool of a moderate fize, and fome maller ones, where the ground is hollow and the rain collects. In thefe pools, after the water has been fome time detained in them, the borax is formed naturally: the men wading into the water, feel a kind of pavement under their feet, which is a fure indication that borax is there formed; and there they accordingly dig it. Where there is little water, the layer of borax is thin; where it is deep, it is thicker; and near the latter there is always an inch or two of foft mud, which is probably a depofit of the water after it has been agitated by rain or wind. Thus is the borax produced merely by nature, without either boiling or diftillation. The water in which it is formed as fo bad, that the drinking a fmall quantity of it will occafion a fwelling of the abdomen, and in a fhort time death itfelf. The earth that yields the borax is of a whitish colour; and in the fame valley, about 4 miles from the pools, there are mines of falt, which is there dug in great abundance for the ufe of all the inhabitants of thefe mountains, who live at a great distance from the a. Ten days journey farther N. there is another valley named TAPRE, where they dig borax; and another till farther to the northward, named CIOGA. Borax in the Hindoo and Nepalese languages, is called SOAGA. If it be not purified, it will easily deliquefce; and in order to preferve it for any time till they have an opportunity of felling at, the people often mix it with earth and butter. In the territory of Mungdan, 16 days journey N. of Nepal, there are rich mines of arfenic; and in various other places are found mines of fulphur, as alfo of gold and filver, whofe produce is much purer than thofe of the mines of Pegu." See § V. (III.) Borax, CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF. Borax is a peculiar neutral falt formed by the union of a kind of acid with mineral alkali. This acid, from fome fuppofed properties of allaying the heat of fevers, had the name of fal fedativus, which it ftill retains. According to Mr Kirwan, 100 parts of purified borax contain 32 of real boracic acid, 17 of mineral alkali, and about 47 of water; but of this quantity of mineral alkali only about 3 parts are faturated; whence, in many cafes, boTax acts as an alkali. Bergman informs us, that it requires an equal weight of acid to make the alkaline properties entirely disappear; and Dr Withering, that double the quantity of acid is required for this purpofe, both in the tincal and refined borax. See IV. N. 2 and 3.

(IV.) BORAX, DIFFERENT KINDS OF. Mr Fourcroy informs us, that borax is feund, in commerce, in three different states.

1. BORAX, CHINESE, is fomewhat pure, and is met with in the form of small plates or maffes irregularly cryftallized, and of a dirty white. It appears to confift of fragments of prifins, and pyramids, confounded together without any fymmetrical arrangement. A white powder is obferved on the furface, which is thought to be of an argillaceous nature.

(V.) BORAX, DISCOVERIES AND OPINIONS RESPECTING. M. Fourcroy fays, that M. La Piame an eminent apothecary at Paris, has difcovered, that borax is continually formed in the foap-fuds and refute waters of the kitchen, which a perion preferves in a kind of ditch; and from which, at the end of a certain time, he obtains true borax in fine cryftals. Some authors affirm, that it is produced by art in China. A mixture of greale, clay, and dung, is faid to be depofited in a ditch, firatum fuper ftratum. This mixture is fprinkled with water, and fuffered to remain for fome years; at the end of which time it is lixiviated, and af fords crude borax by evaporation. Others have alledged, that it is obtained from water, which fil ters through copper mines. Mr Beaume pofitively afferts, that the former of thefe proceffes fuc ceeded very well with him; but Dr Black gives httle credit to his affertions. Borax has been by fome fuppofed to be an artificial production, and perhaps may be artificially made; (See CHEMI STRY, INDEX;) but Mr Hoefer, apothecary to the late Emperor Leopold II. when grand duke of Tufcany, difcovered that the waters of several lakes of that country contain it in a state of great purity. It is probable, (fays our author) that it may hereafter be found in other mineral waters : and it feems to be produced by the putrefaction of fat fubftances. Mr Hoefer first discovered this acid in the waters of Lagoon, named Cerchials, near Monte Rotondo, of which difcovery an account was published in 1778. The fame was found in a concrete ftate,.in fix places, viz. the

earth precipitated from the liquor of flints. Te unites with ponderous earth, magnesia, lime, and alkalis, and forms, with different fubftances, falts diftinguished by one general name of borax, tho only that formed by the combination of fedative falt and mineral alkali is used in the arts. It is used in many other chemical operations as a flux, befides that of glafs-making; and the dyers also use it for giving a glofs to filks. In medicine it has been given as a narcotic, and was formerly an ingredient in a powder for promoting delivery, but is now difufed.

ake of Travale, 20 miles W. of Sienna; that of Ratende, 10 miles farther W.; of del Saffo, 3 m. tarther; of Sarazzano, six m. from Monte Rotondo; of Castel Nuovo, 7 m. from Monte Rotondo and 14 from Sienna; and that of Monte Cerboli, 4 miks diftant from Castel Nuovo. In the neigh borhood of all thefe lakes are confiderable fprings of hot water rushing out of the earth, fome clear, and fome muddy; either of a dark, or a whitish cor; and, in fome, a kind of metallic cruft or Policle is perceived on the furface of the water. Many cavities from which the waters rush out feem to be true fmall volcanic craters, and contitely emit from the earth vapours of a fulphurerus and ammoniacal nature. Thefe waters not Gay contain the acid of borax, both in the fluid and concrete ftate, but various other concretions are there obferved, fuch as martial vitriol, ammacal, aluminous, concrete boracie falts, brim

e. &c." It is remarkable, (fays our author, P 363.) that, near 40 years ago, Dr Hill, in his Lotes on Theophraffus's Treatife on Stones, afferted, that borax was a falt made by evaporation of an tafted and foul water, of which there were rings in Perfia, Mufcovy, and Tartary. Mr Baume, at Paris, pretended to have difcovered he method of making the fedative falt by a long maceration of greafe and earthy fubftances; but body has yet been able to verify this fanciful divery. The unrefined borax which is brought to Earope under the name of tincal, looks like ap, is fat, and covers or encrufts the borax Cals. Mr Swab has published fome exper erts upon this tincal in the acts of the Royal Aademy of Sciences at Stockholm for 1756. He And it in a martial earth, and a fat substance, wich, to fimell, and other circumftances, comes Beret to a mineral fat; as alfo, that pure borax not yield any bepar fulphuris when united with a phlogifton and a vitriolic acid; from which ncludes, that borax is prepared from its own par mineral fubftance. Profeffor Pott and M. Trenouville have very carefully examined the fad borax ; and from their experiments, which been publihed, it is evident, that it is of a peter nature. However, there remains to be

for certain, from whence it is prepared the Indians: for if it is produced from a mi a fubftance, as is very probable, there muft other mixtures and compofitions as yet unwn to the learned world. I have alfo found the tincal fmall bits of leather, bones, and fatall les, whence there is no certainty to be conaded on from its examination; but if it thould pen that it is prepared from animal fubftances, t be allowed, that nature has formed an ale falt in the animal kingdom analogous to the File microcofinicum.”

VI BORAI, USES OF. Borax ferves as a flux 1 vitrifiable earths, with which it forms a good , and is employed in making artificial gems. verifies clay, but much lefs completely than rous earths; and from this property it adheres the infides of crucibles, and glazes them. The of borax, (§ III.) as well as the borax in fub, is made ute of to fufe vitrifiable earths, which it forms clear and nearly colourlefs : by the adiftance of heat it diffolves the

BORBEREK, a town of Tranfylvania, in the county of Weffenburg, feated on the river Maros It has a caftle feated on a high rock, and fortified with towers.

BORBETOMAGUS, in ancient geography, a city of the Vangiones on the Rhine; now called WORMS.

BORBONIA, in botany, a genus of the decandria order, belonging to the diadelphia clafs of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 32d order, Caryophyllea. The ftigma is emarginated: the calyx has pointed fpines; and the legumen is pointed. There are fix fpecies, al natives of warm countries. They are a kind of broom; and rife to the height of 10 or 12 feet, but in Europe feldom above 4 or 5. They mutt be kept conftantly in the stove, and may be propagated by fhoots; but as thefe are generally two years before they put forth roots, the best method is by feeds, which much be procured from their native places.

BORBONIA ASTRA, a denomination formerly given by fome French writers to the folar spots, on a fuppofition that they were fecondary planets. BORBORIANI, in church history, a fect of BORBORITES, gnoftics, in the ad century, who, befides embracing the errors of these heres tics, denied the laft judgment. Their name comes from Boggs, filth; on account of a custom they had of daubing their faces and bodies with dirt.

BORBORYGMUS, [Bogyos,, Gr.] a rumbling or croaking of the intestines.

BORBOTHA, in ichthyology, a name given by fome authors to the MUSTELA FLUVIATILIS, or ecl-pout.

BORCH, a town of Lower Saxony, 14 m. N. E. of Magdeburgh, feated on the Elbe. Lon. 12. 14. E. Lat. 52. 25. N.

BORCHLOEN, or Loors, a town in the ci-devant bishopric of Liege, now included in one of the new departments lately annexed to the French republic. It is 15 m. N. W. of Leige. Lon. 5. 28. E. Lat. 50. 50. N.

BORCOVIUM, in ancient geography, a town of the Ottadini in Britain, now called Berwick. See BERWICK, No. 2.

(I.) BORD, 2. f. ohf. a cottage. Spens. See ABOARD.

(H.) BORD, n. f. obf. a table, or board. Chaut. (III.) BORD, in law, is varioufly applied: e. g. 1. BORD HALFPENNY, a fmall toll by cuftom paid to the lord of the town for fetting up boards, tables, booths, &c. in fairs or markets.

2. BORD LANDS, the demefnes which lords anciently kept in their hands for the maintenance of their board or table. 3. BORD

3. BORD LODE, I.a fervice required of tenants, to carry timber out of the woods of the lord to his houfe: 2. the quantity of provifion which the BORDARII, or bordmen, paid for their bord lands. 4. BORD MAN, a tenant on bord lands.

5. BORD SERVICE, the tenure of bord lands, by which some lands in certain places are held of the bishop of London, and the tenants now pay 6d. per acre, in lieu of fending provifion as formerly for their lord's table.

To BORD, v. a. obf. To approach. Spenfer. BORDA, fold law Lat.] a board, or plank. BORDAGE, or the condition of the borBORDAGIUM, Š darii.

BORDARIA, in old records, a cottage. BORDARII, often mentioned in the Domefday inquifition, were distinct from the SERVI and VILLANI, and feem to be thofe of a lefs fervile condition, who had a bord or cottage, with a fmall parcel of land, allowed to them, on condition they fhould fupply the lord with poultry and eggs, and other fmall provifions for his board and entertainment. Though, according to Spelman, the bordarii were inferior to the villani, as being limited to a small number of acres.

BORDAT, in commerce, a small narrow ftuff, manufactured in fome parts of Egypt, particularly in Cairo, Alexandria, and Damieta.

BORD CLOTH, n. f. obf. a table cloth. Chauc. (1.) BORDE, Andrew, M. D. was born at Pevenfey in Suffex, early in the 16th century. In his Introduction to Knowledge, he says, that he was a ftudent of Oxford. He entered a brother of a Carthufian convent in or near London; but, not liking their difcipline, he returned to Oxford, and applied to phyfic. Some time after, he embarked for the continent; and, as he expreffes it, “travelled through and round about Christendom, and out of Chriftendom into fome parts of Africa." In 1541 and 1542, he refided at Montpelier, where he was made M. D. and after his return to England received the fame degree at Oxford. From his preface it appears that he had also been in Scotland. Having fatisfied his inclination for traveiling, he fettled first at Pevenfey, afterwards at Winchester, and finally in London, where he becime first phyfician to Henry VIII; notwithstanding which, he had the misfortune to end his life in the Fleet prifon, in 1549. Wood fays, "he was efteemed a noted poet, a witty and ingenious perfon, and an excellent phyfician." Pitts calls him a man of fufficient learning, but too volatile. His writings are, 1. A book of the introduction of knowledge, the whych doth teach a man to fpeak part of all manner of languages, &c. Lond. 1542, 4to; dedicated, from Montpelier, to the lady Mary, daughter of Henry VIII. It is written partly in verfe, and partly in profe. 2. The breviary of health. Lond. 1547, 4to. 3. Dietary of health, Lond. 1576, 8vo. 4. The merry tales of the madmen of Gotham: Printed, fays Wood, in the time of Henry VIII, in whofe reign, and after, it was accounted a book full of wit and mirth, by scholars and gentlemen. It is now fold only on the ftalls of ballad-fellers. 5. A right faut and merry history of the mylner of Abingwith his wife and his fair daughter, and of poor fcholars of Cambridge. Lond. 4to.

6. A book of every region, country, and proving &c. published by Hearne at end of Benedi&us bas Peterb. de vita Henrici II. Oxf. 1735, 8 7. The principles of aftronomy. Lond. 12m The author fays, that he wrote this little booki 4 days, with one old pen without mending. (2.) Bo‹DE, n. f. obf. A je&t. Chauc. To BORDE, v. n. obf. To jeft. Chaue. BORDEKIN. See Booт, * BORDEL.

4.

[bordeel, Teut. bordel, Arm * BORDELLO. } rick. A brothel, a bawd

house.-

From the Bordello it might come as well, The spital, or picthatch. Ben Jon -Making even his own houfe a ftew, a borde and a school of lewdnefs, to inftil vice into th unwary ears of his poor children. South.

BORDEN, two villages; 1. in Cornwall, nea Devonshire: 2. in Kent, near Milton.

BORDENTOWN, a thriving town of the U nited States in Burlington County, New Jerfey feated on the E. fide of the Delaware, 26 mile above Philadelphia, and 4 S. E. by S. of Trenton It confifts of about 1oo houfes, a grammar fchool and 2 churches for Baptifts and Quakers. Asi ftands on a rifing ground, about 70 feet perpend cular above the Delaware, between two creek which run into that river, it is extremely healthy Lon. 29. o. E. Lat. 40. 12. N.

(1.) * BORDER. n. f. [bord, Germ. berd, Fr 1. The outer part or edge of any thing.-Tue) have looking glaffes, bordered with broad berden of crystal, and great counterfeit precious ftones Bacon.The light muft ftrike on the middle, and extend its greatest clearness on the principd gures; diminishing by degrees, as it comes neare and nearer to the borders. Dryden. 2. The marc or edge of a country; the confine. If a prince keep his refidence on the border of his dominions the remote parts will rebel; but if he make the centre his feat, he shall eafily keep them in obedi ence. Spenfer. 3. The outer part of a garment generally adorned with needle-work, or orn, meats 4. A bank raised round a garden, and set with flowers; a narrow rank of herbs or flowers.

There he arriving, round about doth fly From bed to bed, from one to other borders And takes furvey, with curious busy eye, Of every flower and herb there fet in order.

All with a border of rich fruit-trees crown' Whofe loaded branches hide the lofty mound Such various ways the fpacious alleys lead, My doubtful mufe knows not what path t tread.

Walle (2.) BORDERS, among florifts, the leaves whic ftand around the middle thrum of a flower.

(3.) BORDERS, in gardening, are made to inclo parterres, that they may not be injured by walk ing in them. Borders are made either circula ftraight, or in cants; and are turned into knot fcrolls, volutes, and other compartiments. The are rendered very ornamental by the flowers thrubs, yews, &c. that are raised in them. The are always laid with a fharp rifing in the middle to render them more agreeable to the eye: th largeft are allowed 5 or 6 feet, and the imali commonly 4.

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(1.) To BORDER. v. a. 1. To adorn with a border of ornaments. 2. To reach; to touch; to confine upon; to be contiguous to.-Sheba and Raamah are those parts of Arabia, which bor der the fex called the Perfian gulf. Raleigh. (2) To BORDER. v. . [from the noun.] 1. To confne upon; to touch fomething elfe at the fide or edge: with upon.-It bordereth upon the province of Croatia, which, in time paft, had contital wars with the Turks garrifons. Kuolles.Vrue and honour had their temples bordering on each other, and are fometimes both on the fame orn. Addifon. 2. To approach nearly to.-All wit, which borders upon profanenefs, and makes bid with those things to which the greatest reveme is dee, deferves to be branded with folly. Tilation.

* BORDERER. n. f. [from border.] He that drells on the borders, extreme parts, or confines; be that dwells next to any place.—

They of thofe marches, gracious fovereign! Shall be a wall fufficient to defend Our inland from the pilfering borderers. Shakefp. -An ordinary horfe will carry two facks of fand; and of fuch, the borderers on the fea do bestow fxty at leaft in every acre; but moft hufbands double that number. Carew.

The easiest to be drawn

To our fociety, and to aid the war : The rather for their seat, being next bord’rers On Italy; and that they abound with horfe. Ben Jonfon. -The king of Scots in perfon, with Perkin in his company, entered with a great army, though it thiefly confifted of borderers, being raifed fomewhat fuddenly. Baron.

Volga's ftream

Sends oppofite, in thaggy armour clad, Her borderers; on mutual flaughter bent, They rend their countries. Philips. BORDESLEY, two English villages; viz. 1. in Warwickshire, near Afton: 2. in Worcestershire, ter Hewel-Grange.

FORD-FREE, adj. not liable to pay the Bord halfpenny. See BORD, III. N° 1.

BORDILLER, n.f. obf. A frequenter of bro

thels. Chauc.

BORDLEY, a village in Yorkshire, E. of Settle. BORDOE, one of the FARO iflands. It has a fafe harbour called KLACK.

BORDONE. See BORDUNI.

To BORDRAGE. v. n. [from border.] To plunder the borders. Not in ufe.

Long time in peace his realm established, Yet oft annoy'd with fundry bordragings Of neighbour Scots, and foreign fcatterlings.

Spenfer.

BORDRAGING, n. f. obf. The act of plundering on the borders of a country. A.

BORDUNI, or BORDONE, Paris, an excellent Italian painter, born at Venice about 1512. He was the difciple of Titian; but has been admired more for the delicacy of his pencil, than for the truth of his outlines. He was at the court of France in the reign of Francis I. who had a great efteem for him, and for whom he drew not only abundance of history pieces, but the portraits of feveral court ladies, in fo fine a manner, that ori VOL. IV. PART I.

ginal nature was hardly more charming. He at length returned to Venice, laden with riches and honour; and died in 1587, aged 75.

BORDURE. See HERALDRY.

(1.) BORE, Catharine DE, wife of LUTHER, the celebrated reformer, was the daughter of a private gentleman, and was born about A. D. 1499. Having been early immuted in the monaftery of Nimptichen, fhe left it, along with other 8 nuns in 1523, during the butle of the holy week, and was married to Luther in 1526. On thefe accounts the Catholic writers raifed many calumnies against her, from which Mr Bayle has very completely vindicated her; and points out numberless miftakes of Varillas and others concerning her. He gives her an excellent character, and mentions, that Luther was fo fatisfied with his choice, that he faid," he would not change his condition for the wealth of Crafus." She bore him 5 children, and survived him a few years. She died at Torgau in 1552, aged 53.

(2.) BORE. 7. f. [from the verb.] 1. The hole made by boring.

Into hollow engines long and round, Thick ramm'd, at th' other bore with touch of

fire

'Twas my fate

Drydens

Dryden

To kill my father, and pollute his bed, By marrying her who bore me. (4) BORE OF A GUN, OF CANNON, denotes the diameter of it, or rather its whole cavity.

(5.) BORE, SQUARE, in fmithery, a fquare fteel point, or thank well tempered, fitted in a fquare focket in an iron wimble, ferving to widen holes, and make them round and smooth within. (1.) To BORE. v. a. [borian, Sax.] 1. To pierce in a hole.