Commerce, a name given by the Siamese to those small shells which are called cowries throughout almost all the other parts of the East Indies. See Cowries.

Biaum, biaum, in Rhetoric, denotes a kind of counter argument, whereby something alleged for the adversary is retorted against him, and made to conclude a different way: for instance, Occidisti, quia adstiti interfecisti.—Biaum, Immo quia adstiti interfecisti, non occidi; nam si id esset, in fugam me conferrisem.

"You killed the person because you were found standing by his body. Biaum, Rather I did not kill him because I was found standing by his body; since, in the other case, I should have fled away."

Biaum, in the Grecian laws, was an action brought against those who ravished women, or used violence to any man's person.