an Italian word, signifying a bath. We use it for a house with conveniences for bathing, cupping, sweating, and otherwise cleansing the body; and sometimes for worse purposes. In Turkey it becomes a general name for the prisons where the slaves are enclosed, it being usual in these prisons to have baths.

BACNOLAS, a town of Lower Languedoc, now the department of Hérault in France. It has a very handsome square, and two fountains which rise in the middle of the town; the waters of which, being received in a basin, are conveyed by a canal out of town, and from thence to the lands about it. E. Long. 4. 43. N. Lat. 44. 10.