bole

bole
    n 1: a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish
         brown pigment)
    2: the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole
       is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
       [syn: {trunk}, {tree trunk}, {bole}]
    3: a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely
       related to Hausa [syn: {Bole}, {Bolanci}]
    

Bole \Bole\, n. [OE. bole, fr. Icel. bolr; akin to Sw. b[*a]l,
   Dan. bul, trunk, stem of a tree, G. bohle a thick plank or
   board; cf. LG. boll round. Cf. {Bulge}.]
   The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.
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         Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. --Tennyson.
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Bole \Bole\, n. [Etym. doubtful.]
   An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house,
   for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.
   [Scot.]
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         Open the bole wi'speed, that I may see if this be the
         right Lord Geraldin.                     --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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Bole \Bole\, n.
   A measure. See {Boll}, n., 2. --Mortimer.
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Bole \Bole\, n. [Gr. ? a clod or lump of earth: cf. F. bol, and
   also L. bolus morsel. Cf. {Bolus}.]
   1. Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay,
      usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of
      iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances.
      It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed
      essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more
      rarely of magnesia. See {Clay}, and {Terra alba}.
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   2. A bolus; a dose. --Coleridge.
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   {Armenian bole}. See under {Armenian}.

   {Bole Armoniac}, or {Armoniak}, Armenian bole. [Obs.]
      --Chaucer.
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Boll \Boll\, n. [OE. bolle boll, bowl, AS. bolla. See {Bowl} a
   vessel.]
   1. The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a
      pericarp of a globular form.
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   2. 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.
      [Sometimes spelled {bole}.]
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Clay \Clay\ (kl[=a]), n. [AS. cl[=ae]g; akin to LG. klei, D.
   klei, and perh. to AS. cl[=a]m clay, L. glus, gluten glue,
   Gr. gloio`s glutinous substance, E. glue. Cf. {Clog}.]
   1. A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the
      hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is
      the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part,
      of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime,
      magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often
      present as impurities.
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   2. (Poetry & Script.) Earth in general, as representing the
      elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human
      body as formed from such particles.
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            I also am formed out of the clay.     --Job xxxiii.
                                                  6.
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            The earth is covered thick with other clay,
            Which her own clay shall cover.       --Byron.
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   {Bowlder clay}. See under {Bowlder}.

   {Brick clay}, the common clay, containing some iron, and
      therefore turning red when burned.

   {Clay cold}, cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate.

   {Clay ironstone}, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or
      carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand.

   {Clay marl}, a whitish, smooth, chalky clay.

   {Clay mill}, a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug
      mill.

   {Clay pit}, a pit where clay is dug.

   {Clay slate} (Min.), argillaceous schist; argillite.

   {Fatty clays}, clays having a greasy feel; they are chemical
      compounds of water, silica, and aluminia, as {halloysite},
      {bole}, etc.

   {Fire clay}, a variety of clay, entirely free from lime,
      iron, or an alkali, and therefore infusible, and used for
      fire brick.

   {Porcelain clay}, a very pure variety, formed directly from
      the decomposition of feldspar, and often called {kaolin}.
      

   {Potter's clay}, a tolerably pure kind, free from iron.
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41 Moby Thesaurus words for "bole":
      anthrophore, axis, barrel, cane, carpophore, cask, caudex,
      caulicle, caulis, column, culm, cylinder, cylindroid, drum,
      footstalk, funicule, funiculus, haulm, leafstalk, pedicel,
      peduncle, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, pillar, pipe, reed, roll,
      roller, rouleau, seedstalk, spear, spire, stalk, stem, stipe,
      stock, straw, tigella, trunk, tube