Noun

(en noun)

The trunk or stem of a tree.

* Tennyson

Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean.

* 1908 ,

A fine powder filled the air and caressed the cheek with a tingle in its touch, and the black boles of the trees showed up in a light that seemed to come from below.

(Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, for giving air or light.

(Scotland) A small closet.

* Sir Walter Scott

Open the bole wi' speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin.

Noun

(en noun)

Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.

(obsolete) A bolus; a dose.

(Coleridge)

Noun

(en noun)

(old unit of measure)

(Mortimer)

Noun

(en-noun)

(biochemistry) A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.

bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.

Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.

* {{quote-book, year=1890, author=Walter Scott, title=The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1616, author=Alexander Roberts, title=A Treatise of Witchcraft, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He spake out of the Pythonesse'', ''Act. 16. 17.'' brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed ''Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were destroyed, and perished: and ouerspread the body of that holy Saint their father with botches[t] and biles from the sole of his foot to the crowne of his head. }}

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).

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