Obs. [f. BOLL v. + -ED.]

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  1.  Swollen, inflated, gibbous; fig. swollen with pride, puffed up.

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c. 1375.  Homily, in Rel. Ant., I. 39. Poure in spirit, that is, not proud ny bolled.

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1578.  Banister, Hist. Man, I. 29. The seuenth [bone] … hath some sides hollow, others boled, or gibbous.

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[1881.  Evans, Leicestersh. Words, s.v., The grains (of wheat) are so bolled, they are ready to jump out of the ear.

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  Cf. BOLD a. 5, also BOLLED ppl. a.2]

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  † 2.  Embossed; embellished. Obs.

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c. 1325.  E. E. Allit. P., B. 1464. Al bolled abof with braunches & leues.

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c. 1400.  Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866), 14. V. paraffys grete & stoute Bolyd in rose red.

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