in commerce, a name given by the Siamese to those small shells which are called securis throughout almost all the other parts of the East Indies.

BLÆUM, βλαιον, in rhetoric, denotes a kind of counter-argument, whereby something alleged for the adversary is retorted against him, and made to conclude a different way: for instance, Occidisti, quia adstitisti interfecto.—Sic, Immo quia adstiti interfetto, non occidi; nam si id est, in fugam me concessest. "You killed the person, because you were found standing by his body. Rather I did not kill him because I was found standing by his body; since, in the other case, I should have fled away."

BIAUM, in the Grecian laws, was an action brought against those who ravished women, or used violence to any man's person.