Obs. Also 5 bolle. [ME. boll-en 14th c., found beside the earlier bolnen, of which it is prob. a phonetic modification (as in mill = miln).]
1. intr. To swell.
c. 1340. Cursor M., 6011 (Trin.). Bile & blister bollynge [3 earlier MSS. bolnande] sore.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. V. 67. His Bodi was Bolled [other MSS. bolnid].
1387. Trevisa, Higden (1865), I. 298. Bocches vnder þe chyn i-swolle and i-bolled.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, xxxviii. 19 b. The belly wyl boll and swel.
fig. 1388. Wyclif, 1 Cor. v. 2. Ȝe ben bolnyd [v.r. bollid] with pride.
1480. Caxton, Chron. Eng., ccxxi. 211. Anone for wrath his hert gan bolle.
b. fig. To increase.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia, 158. Euen while the doubtes most bolled, shee thus nourished them.
