This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1763 Excerpt: ...thick, as that by means thereof, men of the ordinary ttature might he railed to the pitch and elevationof the heroes they perlonated.'The colour was generally purple on the ftigei herein it was diftingiiiihed from the fock, worn in comedy, that being only a lew common flioe. The buflcm leems to have been worn, not only hy a&ora, but by girls, to raife their height; travellers and hunters alfo marie life of it, to defend themfelves from the mire. In claliic authors, we frequently rind the bufkin ufed to lignify tragedy itself, in regard it was a mark of tragedy pn tbeltajfrr. It is alfo to be undtrftood, for a lofty train, or high ililc.. BUSS, SUSS, in maritime-affairs, a final fea vefivl, ufed by us and the Dutch in the herring fifhery, commonly from forty-tight to fixty tons burden, and Ibmctimes more: a bills has two Tmafl fhe!s or cabbins, one at the prow, and the other at the lltni that at the prow ferves for a kitchen. Every buTs has maAer, an afllftant, a mate, 'and Teamen in proportion to the veflel's bigneTs: the imiller commands in chief, and without his exprefe order, the nets cannot be call, nor taken up; the allilhint has the command after him; and the male next, whole bufmefs it to fee the Teamen manage their rigging in a proper manner, to mind thoTe who draw in their nets, and thole who kill, gut, and cure the herrings, as they are taken out of the Teat the fearntn do generally engage for a whole voyage in the lump. The provifion which they take on board the buffes, confift commonly in biOcet, oat-meal, and dried 01 (Mi-lilh; the crew being content for the reft with what frefli fi/h they catch. See Fishery. BUST, orBusTO, in fculpture.fefr. a term uivti for the figure or portrait of a perfon in relievo, (hewing only the bead, fhouldert, an...