1. A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.
2. A Bologna sausage. Bologna sausage Etym: [It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage made of bacon or ham, veal, and pork, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin. — Bologna stone (Min.), radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. — Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.
BOLOGNESE
Bo*lo`gnese", a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to Bologna.
— n.
Defn: A native of Bologna. Bolognese school (Paint.), a school of painting founded by the Carracci, otherwise called the Lombard or Eclectic school, the object of which was to unite the excellences of the preceding schools.
BOLOGNIAN
Bo*lo"gnian, a. & n.
Defn: Bolognese. Bolognian stone. See Bologna stone, under Bologna.
BOLOMETER
Bo*lom"e*ter, n. Etym: [Gr. a stroke, ray + -meter.] (Physics)
Defn: An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; — called also actinic balance, thermic balance. S. P. Langley.
BOLSA
Bol"sa, n. [Sp., lit., purse. See Bourse.]