BOLE
tGr
.
(3&'Xos, " a clod of See also:earth "), a See also:clay-like substance of red, See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown or yellow See also:colour, consisting essentially of hydrous See also:aluminium silicate, with more or less See also:iron
.
Most bole differs from See also:ordinary clay in not being plastic, but in dropping to pieces when placed in See also:water, thus behaving rather like See also:fuller's-earth
.
Bole was formerly in See also:great repute medicinally, the most famous See also:kind being the Lemnian Earth ('See also:yii Ai vca), from the Isle of See also:Lemnos in the See also:Greek See also:Archipelago
.
The earth was dug with much ceremony only once a See also:year, and having been mixed with goats' See also:blood was made into little cakes or balls, which were stamped by the priests, whence they became known as Terra sigillata (" sealed earth ")
.
Large quantities of bole occur as red partings between the successive See also:lava flows of the See also:Tertiary volcanic See also:series in the See also:north of See also:Ireland and the See also:west of See also:Scotland
.
Here it seems to have resulted from the decomposition of the See also:basalt and kindred rocks by meteoric agencies, during periods of volcanic repose
.
In See also:Antrim the bole is associated with lithomarge, See also:bauxite and pisolitic iron-ore
.
Bole occurs in like manner between the great sheets of the See also:Deccan traps in See also:India; and a similar substance is also found interbedded with some of the doleritic lavas of See also:Etna
.
In the sense of See also:stem or See also:trunk of a See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree, " bole " is from the 0
.
See also:Norwegian bolr, cf
.
Ger
.
Bohle, See also:plank
.
It is probably connected with the large number of words, such as " See also:boll, " " See also:ball," " bowl," &c., which stand for a See also:round See also:object
.
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