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bullace|ˈbʊlɪs|
Forms: 4–5 bolace, 5 bolys, -ysse, 5–6 bolas, bulas, 6 bulles, -ase, -asse, 7 bullas, 6–7 bulloes, bullies, -eis, 9 (dial. bulloe, -y), 6– bullace. pl. 4 bolaces, bolas, 6 bullises, bulleys, -aze, boollesse, 6–7 bullies, bullase, 7 bullis, -eis, -aise, -ice, -ices, -ises, -asis, 7– bullace, -aces, (Sc. bullees, Devon bullens.)
[app. connected with OF. beloce of same meaning (13th c., Littré); but its precise relation to the OF. word, and the etymology of the latter, are not ascertained.
The Ir. bulistair, Ga. bulaistear, sometimes accepted as the etymon, appear to be adopted from ME. bolaster = bullace-tree. Legonidec gives a Breton polos, bolos ‘prune sauvage’, and Florio 1611 has an It. bulloi ‘bulloes, slowne, or skegs’, which may possibly be ultimately connected.]
1. A wild plum (Prunus insititia) larger than the sloe; there are two varieties, the black (or dark-blue) and the white; also well-known as a semi-cultivated fruit.
c1350Will. Palerne (1809) 66 Gete vs..bolaces & blakeberies þat on breres growen. c1400Rom. Rose 1377 Notes, aleys, and bolas. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (1840) 199 As bryght as bugyl or ellys bolace. 1483Cath. Angl. 47 A Bulas, pepulum. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §140 Bulleys plummes and suche other, may be sette of stones. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 76 Boollesse, black and white. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physick 183/2 Take whyt bullises pounded to pappe. 1629Parkinson Orchard xiii. 578 The black Bulleis also are those..that they call French Prunes. 1655Mouffet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 293 Bullices likewise, both white, speckled and black, are of the like Nature. 1664Cotton Scarron. iv. (1741) 137 So have I seen in Forest tall..Bullace tumble from the Tree. 1741Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. iii. 394 Damasines, and Bullace. 1762Smollett Sir L. Greaves iii. (D.) Dick and I be come hither to pick haws and bullies. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 236 To make Bullace Cheese. Take your bullace when they are full ripe, etc. 1830Scott Demonol. viii. 248 While gathering bullees..he saw two greyhounds. 1837Hood Mem. T. H. (1860) I. 263 Our landlady..comforted her inside with a mess of dried bullaces in sour wine! 1875Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) 61 Bulloe, the sloe or wild plum.
b. Applied fancifully to a black eye.
a1659Cleveland Wks. (1687) 256 The sparkling Bullies of her Eyes Like two eclipsed Suns did rise.
2. The tree bearing the plum.
1616Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm 670 You shall also by no meanes alongst your pale walke plant fruit trees, blacke-thorne, or bullies. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 119/3 Spinous or thorny Shrubs whose Fruit may be eaten, as..Bullas. 1859W. Coleman Woodlands (1862) 119 The Bullace Plum..a variety of the common Sloe, from which it chiefly differs in the superior size of all its parts, especially the fruit.
3. attrib. and Comb., as bullace-fruit, bullace-plum; † bullace-bay a., of a particular dark-bay colour (said of a horse); bullace-tree (see also bullester).
c1440Promp. Parv. 42 Bolas tre, pepulus. 1530Palsgr. 199/2 Bolas frute, prunelle. 1608Topsell Serpents 768 Their egges..are round..in quantity as big as bullies plums. 1684Bucaniers Amer. (1699) 19 Yaco..bears a fruit like our Bullace or Damson plums. 1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2576/4 The other [Gelding] a dark Bullace-Bay. 1848W. Gardiner Flora of Forfar. 54 P. insititia, Wild Bullace-tree. |