. Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge. tant monumental work inpainting was the six sacred subjects with which hedecorated the dome of San Vicenzo, Treviso ; andhis Fisherman presenting the Ring of St Mark tothe Doge, now in the Academy, Venice, is rankedas masterpiece among his easel pictures. He isrepresented in the National Gallery, London, by Daphnis and Chloe, and A Portrait of a GenoeseLady. Bordlire, in Heraldry, a border surroundinga shield (tig. 1), generally saitl to occupy one-fifth of the field. Though sometimes an inde-pendent bearing, it is often a differ
. Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge. tant monumental work inpainting was the six sacred subjects with which hedecorated the dome of San Vicenzo, Treviso ; andhis Fisherman presenting the Ring of St Mark tothe Doge, now in the Academy, Venice, is rankedas masterpiece among his easel pictures. He isrepresented in the National Gallery, London, by Daphnis and Chloe, and A Portrait of a GenoeseLady. Bordlire, in Heraldry, a border surroundinga shield (tig. 1), generally saitl to occupy one-fifth of the field. Though sometimes an inde-pendent bearing, it is often a difference of a cadet;and the differencing of cadets Ity bordures, accordingto a definite system of rules, has never ceased to bein use in the heraldry of Scotland. There is agreat variety in bordures. Besides being engrailed,invected, wavy, &c., they may be parted in manyways and charged. A bordure compony or gobo-nated— divided into sixteen squares (fig. 2)—isoften an indication of illegitimacy; and in latertimes a bordure wavy has been used in England. Fig. 3. (not Scotland) with the same significance. A chiefor a canton is sometimes placed over a bordure :but this is not done when the bordure is a markof cadency. It then always surrounds a coat, andmay even surround a quartered coat, a very fre-quent arrangement in Scotland. When, however, a coat having a bordure isimpaled with another, the bordure is omitted alongthe line of impalement (fig. 3). Bore, a tidal i)henomenon at the estuaries ofcertain rivers, also called Eagre. When a river ex-pands gradually towards a very wide mouth, and issul)ject to high tides, the spring tlood-tide drives animmense volume of water from the sea into the river;the water accumulates in the estuaiy more rapidly than it can How up into the river; and thus thereis gradually formed a kind of watery ridge stretch-ing across the estuary, ami rushing nj) towardsthe river with great violence and much some cases this ridge or bore is many
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