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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.

n 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.

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

The Adam's apple in the neck. [Obs. or R.] By the throatboll he caught Aleyn. Chaucer.

A measure. See Boll, n., 2. Mortimer.

The bollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.

curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves.

A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000. Brande & C.

A bollard timber. See under Bollard.

a sloven; negligent of neatness and order, especially in dress. A slovenly, lazy fellow, bolling at his ease. L'Estrange.