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A fragrant evergreen shrub of Chili (Peumus Boldus). The bark is used in tanning, the wood for making charcoal, the leaves in medicine, and the drupes are eaten.

The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it. Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. Tennyson.

A projecting molding round a panel. Same as Bilection. Gwilt.

A Spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it.

any fungus of the family Boletaceae. [WordNet 1.5]

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the Boletus. Boletic acid, an acid obtained from the Boletus fomentarius, variety pseudo-igniarius. Same as Fumaric acid.

A genus of fungi having the under side of the pileus or cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. A few are edible, and others very poisonous.

Same as Booly.

A kind of meteor; a bolis.

A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.

Of or pertaining to Bolivia. -- n.

eans 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.]

The Jesuit editors of the "Acta Sanctorum", or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.

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.

See Boln, a.

A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.

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.

To swell; to puff. Holland.

Swollen; puffed out. Thin, and boln out like a sail. B. Jonson.

A kind of large knife resembling a machete. [Phil. Islands]