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† bolne, v. Obs.
Also 4 bulne, boln, 5 ? bollen, 6 boulne.
[ME. bolne(n, a. Da. bolne:—ON. bolgna (Sw. bulna) to swell (intr.); inchoative of belg-, pa. pple. bolg-en, to inflate. (The pa. pple. bolnun mixes up bolned with bollen.)]
1. intr. To swell.
a1300Cursor M. 6011 Bile and blister, bolnand sare. c1325Metr. Hom. (1862) 25 The first dai sal al the se Boln and ris. c1340Cursor M. 12531 (Fairf.) A nedder..stanged Iam in his riȝt hande..He bulned grete. 1468in Cath. Angl. 36 Tumeo, to bolnyn. 1530Palsgr. 460/1 Se howe this toode bolneth. 1576T. Newton tr. Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 132 Immoderately to bolne, swell, and therewith thorowly to bee cloyed.
2. fig. To swell with pride, anger, etc.
c1375Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 266 Þe fifþe condicioun of þis love is þat, it bolneþ not bi pride. 1382― 1 Cor. v. 2 And ȝe ben bolnun with pride. c1449Pecock Repr. v. i. 480 Bolned with witt of his fleisch.
3. trans. To cause to swell; to inflate; also fig.
a1340Hampole Psalter i. 5 Pride, that heghis & bolnes thaim as wynd dos. c1380Wyclif Confess. Wks. (1880) 327 Mannes kunnyng bolniþ hym bi pride. |