Thesaurus: bole

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1. n. The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.
2. n. An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.
3. n. A measure. See Boll, n., 2.
4. n. Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.
5. n. A bolus; a dose.
6. n. a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa, with dialects including Bara and Fika
7. n. a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
8. n. the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
9. The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it. Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. Tennyson. An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet. [Scot.] Open the bole wi'speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin. Sir W. Scott. A measure. See Boll, n., 2. Mortimer. 1. Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba. 2. A bolus; a dose. Coleridge. Armenian bole. See under Armenian. -- Bole Armoniac, or Armoniak, Armenian bole. [Obs.] Chaucer.
10. The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. Tennyson.
11. n:100 n. a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment) n. a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa