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BOLE tGr. (3&'Xos, " a clod of See also:earth "), a See also:clay-like substance of red, See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown or yellow See also:colour, consisting essentially of hydrous See also:aluminium silicate, with more or less See also:iron. Most bole differs from See also:ordinary clay in not being plastic, but in dropping to pieces when placed in See also:water, thus behaving rather like See also:fuller's-earth. Bole was formerly in See also:great repute medicinally, the most famous See also:kind being the Lemnian Earth ('See also:yii Ai vca), from the Isle of See also:Lemnos in the See also:Greek See also:Archipelago. The earth was dug with much ceremony only once a See also:year, and having been mixed with goats' See also:blood was made into little cakes or balls, which were stamped by the priests, whence they became known as Terra sigillata (" sealed earth "). Large quantities of bole occur as red partings between the successive See also:lava flows of the See also:Tertiary volcanic See also:series in the See also:north of See also:Ireland and the See also:west of See also:Scotland. Here it seems to have resulted from the decomposition of the See also:basalt and kindred rocks by meteoric agencies, during periods of volcanic repose. In See also:Antrim the bole is associated with lithomarge, See also:bauxite and pisolitic iron-ore. Bole occurs in like manner between the great sheets of the See also:Deccan traps in See also:India; and a similar substance is also found interbedded with some of the doleritic lavas of See also:Etna.
In the sense of See also:stem or See also:trunk of a See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree, " bole " is from the 0. See also:Norwegian bolr, cf. Ger.
Bohle, See also:plank. It is probably connected with the large number of words, such as " See also:boll, " " See also:ball," " bowl," &c., which stand for a See also:round See also:object.
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