Bolis vs Bolix - What's the difference?
bolis | bolix |
A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; especially one which explodes.
* 1851 , British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report (volume 20, page 90)
As a noun bolis
is a meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; especially one which explodes.As a verb bolix is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.bolis
English
Noun
- A bolis appearing as large as an orange, with a train some yards in length, crossed Wrenbury, Cheshire, about 10 p.m. (p. 305). The observer was my brother, Mr. William Thomson, surgeon, Wrenbury, near Nantwich.