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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bologna \Bo*lo"gna\, n.
1. A city of Italy which has given its name to various
objects.
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2. A Bologna sausage; also informally called {baloney}.
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{Bologna sausage} [It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage
made of bacon or ham, beef, veal, and pork, cooked and
smoked, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin.
{Bologna stone} (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate,
found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers,
first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when
calcined.
{Bologna vial}, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly
into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body,
as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a
bullet may be dropped into it without injury.
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