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BOUILLON

Volume 2 · 127 words · 1778 Edition

a town of France, in the duchy of the same name, and in the county of Luxemburg, with a fortified castle. The French took it in 1670; upon which it was given to the duke of Bouillon; but the king keeps the castle to himself, which is seated on a rock that is almost inaccessible. E. Long. 5° 20'. N. Lat. 49° 45'.

the menage, a lump or excrescence of flesh that grows either upon or just by the fruits, in- much that the fruit shoots out, just like a lump of flesh, and makes the horse halt; and this is called the flesh blowing upon the fruits. Menage horses, that never wet their feet, are subject to these excrescences, which make them very lame. See Frush.