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Blunderbuss – Bog Iron Ore

Blunderbuss

a short gun, unrifled and of large bore, widening toward the muzzle. It is by no means to be ranked with arms of precision, but is loaded with many balls or slugs, which scatter when fired, so that there is a certainty of some one of them hitting the mark.

Blytheville

a city of Arkansas, the county-seat of Mississippi co. It is county-seat of Mississippi co.

It is on the Frisco Lines, the Arkansas Southbattle. ern, and other railroads. It is the center of an important cotton and agricultural

Boa Constrictor

the best known region and has manufactures of hard- species of the genus boa. The specific wood products and lumber. Pop. (1910) 3,849; (1920) 6,447.

Boaz

a Bethlehemite of means, who took upon himself the duty of providing for Ruth, as the near relation of her dead husband Elimelech. From him for Ruth, as the near relation of her Jesus Christ was directly descended.

Bobadilla

FRANCISCO DE, a Spanish statesman, appointed plenipo- BOBADILLA, FRANCISCO DE, a tentiary concerning the State of Hispaniola, in 1500. Having sent its governor, Columbus, to Spain in chains, he was censured and recalled, but was drowned Columbus, to Spain in chains, he was on the return voyage, in 1502.

Bock Beer

a kind of strong beer, the first drawn from the vats in the spring when the winter's brew of lager beer is broached.

Bodleyan

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Brary

a library founded at Oxford, England, by Sir Thomas Bodley, in 1597.

The library was opened to the public on

Bodtcher

LUDWIG (bet'che), a Danish lyrist, born in Copenhagen, in 1793; spent many years in Italy, and nature and man in Italy equally with nature and man in Denmark are the themes of his finest poems-notably "Bacchus," and the collection called "Poems Old and New." He died in 1874.

Bog Butter

a fatty, spermacetilike mineral resin found in masses in peat bogs, composed of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen.

Boghead Coal

a brown cannel coal of Scotland, found at Boghead, near Bathgate, and very valuable for gas and oil making.

Bog Iron Ore

or BOG ORE, a variety of limonite. It occurs in a loose and porous state in marshy places, often inclosing wood, leaves, nuts, etc., in a semi-fossilized state; also a variety of limnite.