a town in Flanders, belonging to the house of Austria, seated on the river Dender, in the midway between Brussel and Ghent. It has but one parish; but the church is collegiate, and has a provost, a dean, and twelve canons. Here is a convent of Carmelites, another of capuchines, another of bare-footed Carmelites, three numeraries, an hospital, and a convent of Guillemins, in which is the tomb of Theodore Martin, who brought the art of printing out of Germany into the Low Countries. He was a friend of Erasmus, who wrote his epitaph. E. Long. 4°. N. Lat. 49°. 55'.