| farm | 1. To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds. "We are enforced to farm our royal realm." (Shak) 2. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc, on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes. "To farm their subjects and their duties toward these." (Burke) 3. To take at a certain rent or rate. 4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm. To farm let, To let to farm, to lease on rent. Origin: Farmed; Farming. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| 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) |
| 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) |