Ancient Geography, an ancient name of Bithynia, so called from the Bebryces its inhabitants. The Bebryces were afterwards driven out by the Thracians, viz. the Bithyni and Thyni: from whom, in process of time, the country took the name of Bithynia. See Bithynia.

Bec, a town of France, in Normandy, now the department of Lower Seine, seated on a tongue of land, at the confluence of two rivers, in E. Long. 0. 52. N. Lat. 48. 45.

Bekah, or Bekah, a Jewish coin, being half a shekel. In Dr Arbuthnot's table of reductions, the bekah amounts to 13½d. in Dr Prideaux's computation to 1s. 6d. Every Israelite paid an hundred bekahs a head annually for the support of the temple.

Becalmed, in a general sense, signifies to appease, to allay.

Becalmed, in the sea language. A ship is said to be becalmed, when there is not a breath of wind to fill the sails.