BOLE
\bˈə͡ʊl], \bˈəʊl], \b_ˈəʊ_l]\
Definitions of BOLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
By Princeton University
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the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.
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An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.
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A measure. See Boll, n., 2.
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Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.
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A bolus; a dose.
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The trunk of a tree.
By Oddity Software
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The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.
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An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.
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A measure. See Boll, n., 2.
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Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.
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A bolus; a dose.
By Noah Webster.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An argillaceous earth or clay; it is found variously colored and is used as a pigment; it has also been employed medicinally as an astringent.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
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The body or trunk of a tree.
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In geol., a term applied to friable elayey earths, usually highly coloured by peroxide of iron; hydrous silicates of alumina and iron peroxide; when the boles become soapy in feel, they are known by the name mountain soap.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Bolus, (F.) Bol, Terre bolaire, meant, with the older writers, argillaceous earth, used as an absorbent and alexipharmic. The various boles had different forms given to them, and were stamped, or sealed, hence called Terror sigillatoe; as in the following:
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A form of argillaceous earth or clay occasionally employed in medicine; consisting chiefly of aluminium silicate, often colored more or less red by the presence of iron oxid or hydrat.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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