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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.

hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.

A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.

A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.

nt, or for effect. Our common forms of compliment are almost all of them extravagant hyperboles. Blair. Somebody has said of the boldest figure in rhetoric, the hyperbole, that it lies without deceiving. Macaulay.

A figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument, or in favor of the opposite side, each of them being refuted in order.

A change or mutation; a change of disease, symptoms, or treatment.

A weight of twelve grains; or, according to some, of ten grains, or half a scruple. [Written also obol.]

Similitude; comparison.

A kind of parenthesis.

A name of Allium Scorodoprasum and A. Ascalonium, two kinds of garlic, the latter of which is also called shallot.

See Rocambole.

Shibboleth. [Obs.]

from the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, called the word sibboleth. See Judges xii. Without reprieve, adjudged to death, For want of well pronouncing shibboleth. Milton.