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- Boll - n. - The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
- Boll - n. - 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.
- Boll - v. i. - To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
- Bollandists - n. pl. - The Jesuit editors of the "Acta Sanctorum", or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.
- Bollard - n. - An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.
- Bolled - imp. & p. p. - of Boll
- Bollen - a. - See Boln, a.
- Bollen - a. - Swollen; puffed out.
- Bolling - v. t. - A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.
- Bollworm - n. - 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.
- Boll - n. - 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.
- Firlot - n. - 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.
- Boll - v. i. - To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
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- Exodus 2 9:31 And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
פִּשְׁתָּה שְׂעֹרָה נָכָה שְׂעֹרָה אָבִיב פִּשְׁתָּה גִּבְעֹל