kind of sausage, made with the eggs and blood of the mullet, a large fish common in the Mediterranean. The best kind comes from Tunis in Barbary: It must be chosen dry and reddish. The people of Provence use a great deal of it, the common way of eating it being with olive oil and lemon juice. There is also a great consumption of it throughout the Levant.

Bote, (Sax.), signifies a recompense, satisfaction, or amends: hence comes manbote, compensation or amends for a man slain, &c. In King Ina's laws is declared what rate was ordained for expiation of this offence, according to the quality of the person slain. From hence likewise we have our common phrase, to-boot, i.e. compensationis gratia. There are bone-bote, plough-bote, &c. privileges to tenants in cutting of wood, &c.

Botelless, (fine remedio). In the charter of Hen. I. to Tho. archbishop of York, it is said, "that no judgment or sum of money, shall acquit him that commits sacrilege; but he is in English called bootelss, viz. without emendation." We retain the word still in common speech: as, It is bootelss to attempt such a thing; that is, It is in vain to attempt it.

Both, John and Andrew, Flemish painters, and pupils of Bloemaert. The union of these brothers was very singular; they were inseparable in their studies, travels, and paintings. John painted the landscape part of their pictures in the manner of Lorrain, and Andrew the figures and animals in the style of Bamboche. They both died in 1650. John's taste in landscape is elegant; his ideas are grand; his composition beautiful; and his execution rich and matterly in the highest degree. His light is not always well distributed; but his figures are excellent. It is to be regretted that we have not more of his works; for they are certainly, upon the whole, among the best landscapes we have.