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▪ 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...
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History of slavery in Mississippi
Mississippi cotton was a strain produced by crossing a large-bolled variety from Mexico with a green-seed variety from Tennessee that "grew better on piedmont
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bulled
▪ I. † ˈbulled, ppl. a.1 Obs. [f. bull n.2 or v.2 + -ed.] Having a bull or seal attached.1330 R. Brunne Chron. 265 Þe pape Celestyn..With letter bulled fyn assoyled to Scotlond sent. 1610 Bp. Carleton Jurisd. 268 He threw away the Popes bulled Letters.▪ II. † bulled, ppl. a.2 rare—1. ? = bolled ppl....
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boll
▪ I. boll, n.1 (bəʊl) Forms: 1 bolla, 2–6 bolle, (6–7 bowle, 7 bol, bole), 7– boll. [A variant of bowl n.1:—OE. bolla = MDu. bolle, Du. bol, ON. bolli wk. masc., cognate with OHG. bolla, MHG. bolle wk. fem. ‘bud, globular vessel’; see bowl. Sense 2 may also be compared with L. bulla, It. bolla, F. b...
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bald
▪ I. bald, a. (bɔːld) Forms: 3–5 ballede, 4–5 balled, -yd, -id, -it, 5 belde, bellyde, 5–7 balde, 6 baulde, 7 bal'd, ball'd, 8–9 Sc. beld, 6– bald. [ME. balled, of uncertain origin; in sense 1, apparently a ppl. form from ball v. or n., with the sense of ‘protuberant or rounded like a ball,’ whence ...
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hereabout
hereabout, adv. (hɪərəˈbaʊt) [f. here adv. 16 + about.] † 1. About or concerning this (thing, etc.). Obs.a 1225 Ancr. R. 46 Scheaweð ofte ine scrifte ower ȝeme⁓leaste her abuten. c 1386 Chaucer Miller's T. 376 Go now thy wey and speed thee heer aboute. 1583 Hollyband Campo di Fior 343 We may remembe...
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swell
▪ I. swell, n. (swɛl) Also 3 swel, 4 swele. [In sense 1 prob. repr. OE. ᵹeswell (:—*gaswaljo-), corresp. to MLG. geswel(le, swel, swele, MDu. geswel, swel, sweel(e (Du. gezwel); in the other senses f. swell v., q.v.] † 1. A morbid swelling. Obs.a 1225 Ancr. R. 274 Auh drinc þeonne atterloðe, & drif ...
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bell
▪ I. bell, n.1 (bɛl) Forms: 1–7 belle, (4 bill), 4–7 bel, 6– bell. [A common LG. word: OE. belle wk. fem. = MDu. and MLG. belle, Du. bel (in Icel. bjalla from OE.), not occurring in other Teutonic languages; perhaps from same root as bell v.4 to make a loud noise, roar. The history of the transferre...
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