Belon, Pierre

(bel'awng,) a very eminent French naturalist, B. 1517. He studied medicine and botany and owed to the friendly aid of the cardinals of Tournon and Lorraine a good education, and the means of making extensive travels in Europe and in the East. He was highly esteemed by Henry II. and Charles IX., and won a great reputation by his numerous works on natural history and the Observations made during his travels. He was a a inated in the Bois de Boulogne, 1564. The genus of plants Bell on i a has been named after him. Bel'ona, BELONE, n. (Zool.) See GARFISH. Belong', v. i. [Dut. belangen, to concern- be, and lang en, to reach to.] To pertain to; to appertain to; to be or quality of; being the concern of; being appendant to; as, all the goods belonging to him. Beloochee, Belooch, ( bel'oo - kis,) n. (Geog.) A native or denizen of Be loo chi stan. -a. Belonging to Be loo chi stan, or its people. Be loo chi stan, now preferably BALU CHI STAN ( bel -oo'. chistan.). (Anc. Gedrosia , the land of the Ichthyophagi, Oritæ, Arabitæ, .). A country of S. Asia, lying be tween 24° 50 and 30° 20′ N. Lat., and 57° 50 and 690 work. An a emblage of these constitutes a village, and the people a kheil or society. Though naturally indolent, they are fearle of danger, and in battle fight with great gallantry. They are a race of lawle robbers, however, and undertake distant excursions in quest of booty, or for the purpose of carrying off the inhabitants of other countries for slaves. - Rel . All the Beloochees are Mohammedans of the Soonee faith, and entertain a great antipathy to other sects. Polygamy is common among them, and the number of slaves is limited only by one's ability to keep them.- Area , about 130,000 sq. m. Pop . est. at 500,000. Almost all the inhabitants of B. are nearly barbarous and uncivilized. Neither the Beloocheekee nor Brahooékee are written tongues, and he is greatly honored, and called moollee, who can read the Koran. They are quite ignorant of all the countries in their neighborhood. Medicine they are totally unacquainted with; and to cure a fever they will shampoo or thump the body all over. This country was quite unknown to Europe ans until the time of Alexander the Great; and for ten centuries afterwards there are no records of B. A caliph of Bagdad, in the year 92, of the Hegira, led an army through it to Scinde; it was afterwards taken po e ion of by Musaood, son of the Emp. Mahmoud, and was governed by his dynasty till 1739, when Nadir Shah ( Fig . 336), having conquered it, bestowed it on the Khan of Cabul. The present Khan of Kalat, Mir Mahmud Khan, succeeded his father in 1893, the latter having been deposed for barbarous cruelty. Belop'tera, n. [Gr. belos , dart, pteron , wing.] ( Pal .) A fo il resembling a belemnite, but le pointed, and having a wing-like projection or proce on each side. It occurs in Tertiary strata, and was evidently the internal bone of a cephalopod. - The name Belosepia (Gr. se pia , cuttle-fish) is given to another kind of belemnite found in Tertiary deposits; and that of Beloteuthis (Gr. teuthis, squid) to one shaped like a spear-head occurring in the Lias. Beloved, ( bē - luvd ',) p. a. [ be and loved, from love.] Loved; greatly loved; dear to the heart. "And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth." Byron . Below, ( be - lo ' ,) prep. [be and low .] Under; beneath; not so high. "He il beat Ausidius' head below his knee, And tread upon his neck." - Shaks. 18 E. Long.; the N. and W. boundaries have been in proce of final settlement only since 1896. It may be thus generally described - One portion, which includes Quetta and Bolan (until 1883 under the Khan of Kalat), is now a province of British India; another, compris- ing the Bori and Zohl valleys, is directly under the British Political Agent; a third is occupied by the Marri and Bugti tribes; and the fourth may be styled the Native State, a loose kind of confederacy composed of the Kalat, Sarawan, Jhalawan and other tribes under the nominal chiefship of the Khan of Kalat. The country is very diversified; the climate in the higher part being extremely cold, while the heat, during the summer season, is scarcely supportable in the plains. There is a general scarcity of water. A large proportion of the country is moun- tainous, the eastern part especially being so. - Prod . All sorts of grain and vegetables, and the finest fruits flour- ish abundantly. In the N. districts, madder, cotton, and indigo are produced, the latter of excellent quality. A afœtid a, which is a favorite kind of food among the Beloochees, grows among the hills. Trees of large size are seen, although generally B. does not seem to be a woody country. Min . Gold, silver, copper, lead, iron, limestone, marble, rock-salt, sulphur, and saltpetre.- Zool. The domestic animals are horses, mules, a es, camels, dromedaries, buffaloes, black-cattle, sheep, goats, -On earth; as opposed to heaven, or the skies. dogs and cats, besides fowls and pigeons. There are neither geese, turkeys, nor ducks. The wild animals are lions, tigers, leopards, hyænas, wolves, jackals, tiger- -In hell; in the regions of the dead. -Inferior to; low in relation to, or in comparison of. "His Idylliums of Theocritus are as much below his Manilius as the fields are below the stars."- Felton . -Unbefitting; unworthy of. "Tis much below me on his throne to sit." - Shaks. Below', adv . In a lower place; beneath, with respect to any object. "This said, he led them up the mountain's brow, And shewed them all the shining fields below. -Pope. "And let no tears from erring pity flow For one that's ble 'd above, immortaliz'd below . - Smith. "When suffering saints aloft in beams shall glow, And prosperous traitors gnash their teeth below."-Tickell. cats, wild dogs, foxes, hares, mongooses, mountain-goats, antelopes, elks, red and moose deer, and wild a es, which inhabit both the mountains and the plains. Of -A court of lower or inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial birds there are almost every species to be met with either in Europe or India. Inhabitants . This country is occupied principally by two great cla es of inhabitants, namely, the Beloochees and Brahooes, differing from each other in their outward appearance, as well as in their manners. These are divided into an infinite variety C Fig. 336. NADIR SHAH, (king of Persia.) (From Fraser's Hist. of "Nadir Shah.") below. Bel'pa i, in Oregon, a post-village of Marion co., 15 m. N.E. of Salem. Bel'per, a market-town of England, in Derby shire, 7 m. N. of Derby. Manf. Cottons, silks, nails, . Pop. 10,560. Bel'pre, in Ohio , a post-village of Washington co., on the N. bank of the Ohio River, about 15 m. S.W. of Marietta, and opposite Parkers burg in Virginia.