| boll | 1. The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form. 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. Origin: OE. Bolle boll, bowl, AS. Bolla. See Bowl a vessel. To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed. "The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled." (Ex. Ix. 31) Origin: Bolled. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Boll, Franz | <person> German histologist and physiologist, 1849-1879. See: Boll's cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Boll's cells | Basal cell's in the lacrimal gland. (05 Mar 2000) |