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- English Word Bolivian Definition Of or pertaining to Bolivia.
- English Word Bolivian Definition A native of Bolivia.
- English Word Boll Definition The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
- English Word Boll Definition 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.
- English Word Boll Definition To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
- English Word Bollandists Definition The Jesuit editors of the "Acta Sanctorum", or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.
- English Word Bollard Definition An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.
- English Word Bolled Definition of Boll
- English Word Bollen Definition See Boln, a.
- English Word Bollen Definition Swollen; puffed out.
- English Word Bolling Definition A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.
- English Word Bollworm Definition 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.
- English Word Boln Definition To swell; to puff.
- English Word Boln Definition Alt. of Bollen
- English Word Bologna Definition A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.
- English Word Bologna Definition A Bologna sausage.
- English Word Bolognese Definition Of or pertaining to Bologna.
- English Word Bolognese Definition A native of Bologna.
- English Word Bolognian Definition Bolognese.
- English Word Bolometer Definition An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic balance, thermic balance.
- English Word Bolster Definition A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows.
- English Word Bolster Definition A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
- English Word Bolster Definition Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc.
- English Word Bolster Definition A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle.
- English Word Bolster Definition A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing.
- English Word Bolster Definition Anything used to prevent chafing.
- English Word Bolster Definition A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment.
- English Word Bolster Definition A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests.
- English Word Bolster Definition The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.
- English Word Bolster Definition the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.