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bold | bolo |

As a noun bold

is (obsolete) a dwelling; habitation; building.

As an adjective bold

is courageous, daring.

As a verb bold

is to make (a font or some text) bold.

As an acronym bolo is

an all-points bulletin (apb) with information to pick up an individual.

bold

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bold, from (etyl) bold, blod, bolt, .

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
    • Related terms
    * *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) bold, bald, beald, from (etyl) bald, .

    Adjective

    (boldness) (er)
  • Courageous, daring.
  • *, chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
    • It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.
  • (of a font) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
  • Presumptuous.
  • * 1748 , (David Hume), Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 9.
    • even the boldest and most affirmative philosophy, that has ever attempted to impose its crude dictates and principles on mankind.
    Synonyms
    * (courageous) audacious, brave, courageous, daring, forward * See also
    Related terms
    * embolden

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make (a font or some text) bold.
  • (obsolete) To make bold or daring.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To become bold.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    bolo

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long, heavy, single-edged machete ().
  • A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide ().
  • A request for law enforcement officers to B'e '''O'''n the ' Lo okout for a suspect.
  • Designating a type of punch; an uppercut.
  • *1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 141:
  • *:He jerked me off balance and the hand with the brass knucks came around in a looping bolo punch.

    • See also

    * golok (Indonesian) * machete * parang * tabak (Filipino)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.
  • *
  • *:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

    • Anagrams

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