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BUGGASINS

Volume 1 · 84 words · 1771 Edition

in commerce, a name given to buckrams made of callico: these pay a duty, on importation, of 1s. 2½½ d.; the half piece; whereof 1s. ½½ d. is drawn back on exportation.

BUGGERS, in church-history, the same with bulgarians, a sect of heretics which, amongst other errors, held, that men ought to believe no scripture but the New Testament; that baptism was not necessary to infants; that husbands who conversed with their wives could not be saved; and that an oath was absolutely unlawful.