Chapter Boilary to Bolster of B by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

2. A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels. [Sometimes spelled bole.]

Boll
(Boll), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bolled ] To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
Ex. ix. 31.

Bollandists
(Bol"land*ists) n. pl. The Jesuit editors of the "Acta Sanctorum", or Lives of the Saints; — named from John Bolland, who began the work.

Bollard
(Bol"lard) n. [Cf. Bole the stem of a tree, and Pollard.] An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.

Bollard timber (Naut.), a timber, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.

Bollen
(Boll"en) a. See Boln, a.

Bolling
(Boll"ing) n. [Cf. Bole stem of a tree, and Poll, v. t.] A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.

Bollworm
(Boll"worm`) n. (Zoöl.) The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops.

Boln
(Boln) v. i. [OE. bolnen, bollen; cf. Dan. bulne. Cf. Bulge.] To swell; to puff. Holland.

Boln
(Boln Boll"en) a. Swollen; puffed out.

Thin, and boln out like a sail.
B. Jonson.

Bologna
(Bo*lo"gna) n.

1. A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.

2. A Bologna sausage.

Bologna sausage[It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage made of bacon or ham, veal, and pork, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin. — Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. — Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.

Bolognese
(Bo*lo`gnese") a. Of or pertaining to Bologna. — n. A native of Bologna.

Bolognese school (Paint.), a school of painting founded by the Carracci, otherwise called the Lombard or Eclectic school, the object of which was to unite the excellences of the preceding schools.

Bolognian
(Bo*lo"gnian) a. & n. Bolognese.

Bolognian stone. See Bologna stone, under Bologna.

Bolometer
(Bo*lom"e*ter) n. [Gr. a stroke, ray + -meter.] (Physics) An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; — called also actinic balance, thermic balance. S. P. Langley.