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Bologna|bəˈləʊnjə, bəˈlɒnjə|
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; also (U.S.) ellipt.; B. spar, stone, native sulphate of baryta found near Bologna, having phosphorescent properties.
1563Grafton Chron. 601 To forsake the cytie of Bonony.
1744Phil. 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.
1875B. Loewy tr. Weinhold's Exp. Physics 774 Bolognian *flasks are simply small glass bottles which, after being formed, have been suddenly cooled in the air.
1822J. Imison Sc. & Art II. 90 Sulphate of barytes..when calcined..forms the Bolognian *phosphorus. 1875Ure 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.
1596Nashe 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. 1850Knickerbocker XXXV. 23 Relishing ‘Bolognas’, will he plead that a jelly-eyed roaster is disgusting? 1916C. Sandburg Chicago Poems 24 The dago shovelman finishes the dry bread and bologna.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 196 Light may otherwise arise than from suns, as may be seen by..the Bononian *Stone. 1694Phil. Trans. XVIII. 35 Method of Preparing the Bononian Stone or Phosphorus. 1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. note, The Bolognian stone..has been long celebrated for its phosphorescent quality. |