▪ I. † ˈbollen, n. Obs.
Also bollien, bolline, bolyn.
[Only in Lyte: some kind of erroneous formation on boll.]
= boll n.1 3.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. xxxvii. 55 The seede [of Pimpernell] is contayned in small round littell bolliens or knappes. Ibid. i. lxxiii. 109 The stalkes..vpon the toppes whereof groweth small round knappes or bollines. Ibid. v. lxxviii. 645 The rounde bollens, or imbossed heades of the right Squilla. |
▪ II. † ˈbollen, ppl. a. Obs.
Also 4–5 bollun, 5 bolle; and 6 boln(e, boalne, bowlne.
[pa. pple. of bell v.1 Obs. to swell; cf. bolghen. In the 16th c. there was a monosyllabic variant boln, etc. (see β); also in Sc. a form bolden, mod. bowden, with d generated between l and n.]
Swollen; inflated, puffed up.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 282 A bleddre ibollen ful of winde. c 1340 Cursor M. 12685 (Trin.) His knees þerof were bollen so [v.r. bolnd, bolned]. 1382 Wyclif 2 Tim. iii. 4 Bollun with proude thouȝtis. c 1430 Lydg. Bochas viii. xv. (1554) 186 b, Tofore Bochas came Hermenricus..Inflate and bolle. 1493 Festyvall (W. de W. 1515) 99 His knees..were bollen out lyke a camell. 1593 Shakes. Lucr. 1417 Here one, being thronged, bears back, all bollen and red. |
(β) boln, bolne, boalne, bowlne. [Cf. swoln.]
| 1509 Hawes Past. Pleas. 135 His breste fatte, and bolne in the wast. a 1547 Surrey æneid ii. 346 Whose feet were bowln With the strait cords. 1566 J. Studley Seneca's Medea (1581) 133 His body boalne big, wrapt in lumpes. 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iii. (1641) 225/1 With foaming fury swoln, With boystrous beasts of angry tempests boln. 1609 Holland Amm. Marcel. xxviii. ix. 341 With a big and bolne necke of his owne. |