Also 5 Bonony, 6 Bononye, 8 Bolonia. A town in Italy, anciently called Bononia. Hence Bolognan, Bononian a.: also Bologna bottle, flask, phial, an unannealed bottle (see quot.); B. phosphorus, a phosphorescent preparation of Bologna stone and gum; B. sausage, a large kind of sausage first made at Bologna; B. spar, stone, native sulphate of baryta found near Bologna, having phosphorescent properties.
1563. Grafton, Chron., 601. To forsake the cytie of Bonony.
1744. Phil. Trans., XLIII. 272. A Phænomenon, which is called of the Bologna *Bottle, because it was first discover’d at Bologna. If you let these Bottles fall perpendicularly from some Height upon a Brick-floor, they will not be broken; but if you drop into them some little hard Bodies, they will burst in Pieces.
1875. B. Loewy, trans. Weinhold’s Exp. Physics, 774. Bolognian *flasks are simply small glass bottles which, after being formed, have been suddenly cooled in the air.
1822. Imison, Sc. & Art, II. 90. Sulphate of barytes … when calcined … forms the Bolognian *phosphorus.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, I. 295. Bologna spar is notable for phosphorescence … when heated; the so-called ‘Bologna Phosphorus’ was made by powdering this stone, and cementing the powder into the form of sticks, by means of gum.
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, Wks. 1883–4, III. 162. As big as a Bolognian *sawcedge.
1842. ‘Meg Dods,’ Cook & Housew. Manual, III. i. 267, note. Real Bologna sausages labour under the imputation of being made of asses’ flesh.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 196. Light may otherwise arise than from suns, as may be seen by … the Bononian *Stone.
1694. Phil. Trans., XVIII. 35. Method of Preparing the Bononian Stone or Phosphorus.
1791. E. Darwin, Bot. Gard., i. note. The Bolognian stone … has been long celebrated for its phosphorescent quality.
