Bay-window

(Arch.) A window which projects outwards, so as to form a kind of bay or rece within an apartment. Bazaar, Bazar, (ba-zar'.) [Pers. bâzâr, a market, traffic, or merchandise.] A kind of exchange or market-place among the Turks and Persians. Some of these buildings are remarkable not only for their extent, but for their magnificence. In Europe the word is now used to denote certain large buildings containing a collection of shops or stalls, let to different persons, and in which a great variety of " fancy goods" are exposed for sale. Bazaine. (baz'in,) FRANÇOIS ACHILLE, a marshal of France, B. about 1810, entered the army in 1831, greatly distinguished himself in Algeria and in the Crime an war; succeeded Marshal Forey as commander-in-chief of the French expedition to Mexico, in 1863. On the declaration of war against Pru ia in 1870, B. commanded a corps d'armée, and found himself beleaguered by the German armies under the walls of Metz, which city, together with B.'s army, after an obstinate defence, surrendered, Oct. 27. In 1873, the marshal was tried on a charge of high treason committed in capitulating at Metz, and sentenced to imprisonment at St. Marguerite, from which fortre he escaped in 1874. Beach, (bech.) (Geol.) A shelving tract of sand or shingle washed by the sea or a fresh-water lake, interspersed between the water and the land on which vegetation grows. The sea-beach is the space between low-and high-water mark, particularly that part of it which is washed by the waves; and the beach of a lake lies between the highest and lowest water-marks of its ordinary level.-Raised beaches are banks of sand and 6 L shingle, with shells, found following the bays and rece es of the coast, at various heights above the existing beach or sea-margin. These give evidence of either elevation of the land, or depre ion of the ocean, and point to times when sea and land stood at these succe ive levels. [s. 81] Beach -flen. (Zool.) See AMPHIPODS. Beach -flen. (Zool.) See AMPHIPODS. [s. 81]