Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swollen; inflated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
boln , a.
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- adjective Alternative form of
boln .
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Examples
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But the women vse to powre water vpon their own bodies, and to rubbe themselues against some roughe stone: and then with a piece of a Cipresse, Ceadre, or Encence tree, to grate their whole bodie, vntill it be some what bollen or swollen.
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Out then from his breast, for as bollen as was he,
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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The best of folk-heroes, that wrath-bollen was he.
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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Here one, being thronged, bears back, all bollen and red;
A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare George MacDonald 1864
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Het programma van Brosella Jazz (gratis festival in het Groentheater aan de bollen van 't atomium) op zondag 13/7 staat me geweldig aan.
MUGGENBEET 2010
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Uni shob shune amake bollen: Thik achhe, thik achhe '.
The Times of India 2010
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Encence tree, to grate their whole bodie, vntill it be some what bollen or swollen.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Poland, Hungary, and the Netherlands also eat donuts, and Holland has ollie bollen, puffy, donut-like pastries filled with apples, raisins, and currants.
News - MyNC.com 2009
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Trade union ebong krishok andoloner aporadhe samosto rajnaitik bondider mukti ebong jarai srom deben tader protyeker jnyo samoporiman khadyo reshoner adhikar. etai to communist dabi … kintu Lenin eke akhya dilen shet sainyoder uskani hisebe ar tader europio samarthakder gore tole sharojontro (jano nandigram prosonge Binoy Kongar), Kujnar bollen - jodi tomra judhya chao tai pabe, amra communistra Kronstade rashtrer sashon bolobot korboi. (thik jano nandigram prasonge Biman Bosu), Trotsky 60000 shaktir lal fouj lelie dilen Kronstader nabikder upor.
Kafila 2009
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