Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A round seal affixed to a papal bull.
- noun Medicine A large blister or vesicle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ornament in the form of a capsule or locket, in use among the ancient Romans, who adopted it from the Etruscans.
- noun A seal attached to a document.
- noun Any ornament of rounded form, especially if suspended, such as those which are attached by small chains to the Hungarian crown.
- noun In pathology, a bleb or portion of epidermis raised by the extravasation of a transparent watery fluid, as in erysipelas, etc.
- noun In anatomy, an inflated portion of the bony external meatus of the ear, forming a more or less well-marked prominence on each side at the base of the skull of many animals, usually constituted by a bulbous tympanic bone. Also called
bulla ossea . See extract. - noun [capitalized] A genus of tectibranchiate (or pleurobranchiate) gastropods, to which very different limits have been assigned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.
- noun (Anat.) The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals.
- noun A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of marine shells. See
Bubble shell .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine A
blister ,vesicle , or other thin-walled cavity orlesion . - noun archaeology A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents.
- noun historical In ancient Rome, a kind of
amulet orboss . - noun Later, handwritten document from the papal chancellery.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
- noun the round leaden seal affixed to a papal bull
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A long, simple, sleeved tunic bordered with a purple stripe was the standard uniform for both freeborn boys and girls in Rome, and a protective neck chain called a bulla in the case of boys and a moon-shaped lunula for girls the moon being the symbol of Diana, the Roman goddess of chastity their only adornment.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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* Just in front of the bulla is a foramen lacerum medium (f.l. M.), through which no nerve passes.
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The bulla was a small object, enclosed in historical times in a capsule, and suspended round the child's neck.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Though it is true, they then constituted many things in honor to the women; as to give them the way wherever they met them; to speak no ill word in their presence; not to appear naked before them, or else be liable to prosecution before the judges of homicide; that their children should wear an ornament about their necks called the bulla (because it was like a bubble), and the praetexta, a gown edged with purple.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Among the unusual finds extracted by Bar-Ilan University's Gabriel Barkai and his team of students and volunteers is a "bulla," or seal impression, thought to be used to close cloth sacks of silver.
From On High 2006
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Among the unusual finds extracted by Bar-Ilan University's Gabriel Barkai and his team of students and volunteers is a "bulla," or seal impression, thought to be used to close cloth sacks of silver.
Archive 2006-01-01 2006
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Then they constituted many things in honor to the women, such as to give them the way wherever they met them; to speak no ill word in their presence; that their children should wear an ornament about their necks called the "bulla" (because it was like a bubble), and the "praetexta," a gown edged with purple.
The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls 46-120? Plutarch 1884
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It's no wonder that people such as Francisco Rodríguez are calling the government's bluff and framing the achievements of the government's social programs as more "bulla" than "cabuya".
Caracas Chronicles 2009
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The other item was a 'bulla' or a type of amulet [pictured left], discovered by Glen Camley, an amateur metal detector, on farmland at Inch near Downpatrick.
Slugger O'Toole 2009
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The Coroner also ruled yesterday that a separate find of a gold Bronze Age purse or 'bulla' should be considered a treasure.
sonofgroucho commented on the word bulla
Fancy name for a blister.
December 22, 2007