Bazalgette, Joseph

WILLIAM, a distinguished English engineer, b. 1819, executed the main drainage works of London, and built the Thames embankment. Ba'zas, an old town of France, dep. Gironde, cap. of an arrond., on a rock, 33 m. S.S.E. of Bordeaux, was for a long time the residence of the dukes of Gascony. P. 5,721. Bazet'ta, in Ohio , a post-township of Trumbull co. Bazoche, or BASOCHE, ( ba -zosh',) n. ( Hist .) The etymology of this French term is rather doubtful, but most writers agree in considering it as a burlesque translation of the Latin word basilica , a royal palace. When justice was administered in the royal palace of the French kings, the judges, advocates, procurators, and others who were connected with this department, were termed clercs de la bazoche . Afterwards, when the administration of justice became a separate department, a distinc. tion was made between those noblemen who formed the pre ed. Peloponnesus by signals of this kind. In England, the beacons were formerly piles of fagot-wood, but afterwards poles were erected, to which iron pots were attached, filled with pitch and other combustibles. Intelligence was quickly conveyed in this manner; and the beacons on the border between England and Scotland were always carefully watched. These iron beacons were often erected on church-towers, and one is still to be seen on the tower of the parish church of Hadley, near London. (Mar.) An erection placed at the entrance of a bar, river, or harbor, to indicate dangerous navigation, as sunken rocks, sand banks, . Formerly it was in the form of a pole secured by chains to the rock on which it is placed, with a large ball formed of iron hoops at the top. Ve els anchored in certain places, exhibiting lights at night, are called floating - beacons or floating - lights . See LIGHT-HOUSE. -A term used in some parts of England to denote a high hill. Anything which gives notice of danger; as, "The beacon of the wise." - Shaks . -v. a. To afford light, as a beacon; to light up. Bdellia, (del'le-ah,) n. [Gr. bdallo , to suck.] ( Zool .) A Bea'con, in low a , a post-office of Mahaska co. gen. of animals, cla Annelid a , and fam. Hirudinida , or Bea'conage, n. Fees or dues paid for the use and leeches. They are found in the fresh waters of Egypt, maintenance of a beacon. and a species was known to Hero dot us, who a erted that it was found parasitic upon the crocodile.