▪ I. † bolled, ppl. a.1 Obs.
[f. boll v. + -ed.]
1. Swollen, inflated, gibbous; fig. swollen with pride, puffed up.
| c 1375 Homily in Rel. Ant. I. 39 Poure in spirit, that is, not proud ny bolled. 1578 Banister Hist. Man i. 29 The seuenth [bone]..hath some sides hollow, others boled, or gibbous. [1881 Evans Leicestersh. Words s.v., The grains (of wheat) are so bolled, they are ready to jump out of the ear. Cf. bold a. 5, also bolled ppl. a.2] |
† 2. Embossed; embellished. Obs.
| c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. B. 1464 Al bolled abof with braunches & leues. 1400 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 14, V. paraffys grete & stoute Bolyd in rose red. |
▪ II. † bolled, ppl. a.2 Obs. exc. dial.
[f. boll v.3 or n.1 3 + -ed. Cf. seeded, podded.]
Having bolls; esp. having seed vessels, in pod, in seed.
| 1535 Coverdale Ex. ix. 31 Y⊇ flax was boulled. [1611 The flaxe was bolled; 1382 Wyclif, The flax now buriownde coddes; 1388 The flax hadde buriounned thanne knoppis]. 1639 Horn & Robotham Gate Lang. Unl. xii. §131 Garlick, onions, leekes..are bolled [round-headed]. |