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.