单词 | bole |
释义 | bolen.1 a. The stem or trunk of a tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > stem, trunk, or bole stovenc1000 bolec1314 bodyc1330 stock1340 shaft1398 stealc1440 truncheonc1449 trunk1490 stud1579 leg1597 butt1601 truncus1706 stam1839 c1314 Guy Warw. (1840) 260 His nek is greter than a bole. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 622 By bole of þis brode tre we byde þe here. 1521 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) 315 The shadowe of the bole of the tree. 1641 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 32 Five upright and exceeding tall suckers, or bolls. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 158 Whose boughs shoot from the boal fifteen or sixteen yards. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Dressing Boughs and Suckers, which have made themselves and the Boll knotty. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. xii. i. 249 Gnarled boles of pollard oaks and beeches. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 129 A fair, smooth bole, with boughs Only on high. b. transferred. Anything of a cylindrical shape like the trunk of a tree, as a roll, a pillar. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [noun] > cylindrical object rundle1565 roller1567 roundel1585 cylinder1641 bolea1651 a1651 E. Grey True Gentlewomans Delight (1653) sig. E4 Make it up in little long boles or rouls. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Jan. 1/2 The sky..seen between the boles of stone. Compounds †bole-fashion adv., bole-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [adverb] > in the manner of a bole bole-fashion1578 the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [adjective] > of or relating to or having stem or trunk (bole) trunked1640 truncal1847 bole-like1854 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. l. 508 Another Holy, whose roote is not bolefashion. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 313 The bole-like stems of great plants. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bolen.2 1. a. The name of several kinds of fine, compact, earthy, or unctuous clay, usually of a yellow, red, or brown colour due to the presence of iron oxide. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > bole bole1645 bolus1682 1645 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 143 A..paper of a red astringent powder, I suppose of bole. 1651 J. French Art Distillation iii. 78 Such things as will flow must have bole, or powder of brick mixed with them. 1687 Philos. Trans. 1686–7 (Royal Soc.) 16 144 It may perhaps be better reckon'd amongst Boles than Stones. 1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 73 A red Bole, called by the Country People Redding, or Ruddle. 1843 J. E. Portlock Rep. Geol. Londonderry 152 A soft clayey amygdaloid, decomposing into a rich and deep red bole. 1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 476. b. bole armeniac n. an astringent earth brought from Armenia, and formerly used as an antidote and styptic. Cf. bole Armoniac at ammoniac adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > [noun] > medicinal earths terra sigillata1398 bole armeniac?a1425 sealed earth1526 Lemnian earth1611 Terra Lemnia1613 Armenian bole1621 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > astringent or restringent preparations > [noun] > mineral-derived terra sigillata1398 tuttyc1400 bole armeniac?a1425 sealed earth1526 Lemnian earth1611 Terra Lemnia1613 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antidote > [noun] > other antidotes > mineral terra sigillata1398 bole armeniac?a1425 sealed earth1526 Lemnian earth1611 Terra Lemnia1613 Armenian bole1621 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 119v In sich mortificacioun of a membre, þe goyng of corrupcioun with-sette with scarificacionz..aboue þe hole partiez with bole armeniac. c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 153 (MED) Tak bool armanyk..& poudre þy bool & þy gomme. ?1537 T. Elyot Castell of Helthe iv. viii. f. 81 Base redde, lyke to bole armenake [1540 armenac]. 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount (1568) 40 b Take..Bolearmenicke. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxliii. 275 Cloves, Mace..Bole Armenicke, of eche of them halfe a dramme. 1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell ii. 140 Take..halfe a pound of bole armeniac, halfe so much of sanguis draconis, with fiue or sixe egges, and a pint or more of strong vinegar: then mixe them well al together. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Bolarmenico Bolearminack. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 43 Plaister is made thereof with bole-armoricke. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §701 Bole-Arminick is the most Cold of them. 1727 E. Strother tr. P. Hermann Materia Medica I. i. 92 [The Dose] is assisted in its Virtue, by..Bole-armeniac, Crabs-eyes, burnt Harts-horn, and sealed Earth. 1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. xxix. 100 A Defensitive composed of Bole Armenie. ?1780 S. Freeman Ladies Friend (ed. 3) ix. 107 Take Red Coral, Japan Earth, Bole Armeniac, fine Chalk, Blood-stone, and Preparation of Hartshorn...A great many women prefer this way of taking remedies for the Whites. 1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) II. xiii. 402 Take..bole armenic, parched barley, [etc.]. 1814 R. Henderson Treat. Breeding Swine (ed. 2) ii. iii. 134 Take an ounce of bole Armeniac, half an ounce of dragon's blood, two ounces of Castile soap, and one dram of Roche alum. 1832 Fraser's Mag. 6 714 The best toothpowder in the world is Armenian bole. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > pills, tablets, etc. > [noun] > pill > large pill balla1400 bale1576 bole1601 bolus1603 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 141 Thirty grains of Lentils swallowed down by way of Bole. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. xvi. 57 Ignorant..persons, who swallow down the bole and the box that carries it. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Water Germander The plant..may..be prescribed in Boles as well as in infusion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022). bolen.3 Scottish. 1. A small square recess in the wall of a room for holding articles. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > bole bolea1600 bowel1835 a1600 Aberdeen Reg. in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1825) 128/2 All fyir that cumis in [is carried into] the kirk to be keepit in the bowall in the wall. 1728 A. Ramsay Monk & Miller's Wife in Poems II. 229 Bring frae yon Boal a roasted Hen. 1850 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. (ed. 2) xxv. 365 The gold, which you will find in the little bole under the tapestry of my room. 2. An unglazed aperture in the wall of a castle, cottage, stable, etc., for admitting air or light; sometimes closed with a shutter. ΚΠ 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. iii. 57 Open the bole wi' speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin. c1817 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches VI. 97 We have been benighted, and have been drawn hither by the light in your bole. 1875 J. Veitch Tweed 92 A narrow bole High near the top. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bolen.4 (See quot.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > furnaces for melting or refining metals > for roasting or calcining ores > for lead ore ore hearth1612 bole1670 Castilian furnace1875 1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales Gloss. s.v. Boles or Bolestids are places, where in ancient time (before Smelting Mills were invented) the Miners did fine their lead. 1785 Archaeologia 7 170 There was a bole..where in ancient times..miners used to smelt their lead ores. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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