boln

English

Alternative forms

• bollen

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English bolnen, bollen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse bólgna, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse bolginn (“swollen”), past participle of a verb represented by Old English belgan (“to swell”). Compare Swedish bulna (“to swell, be swollen”), Danish bolne (“to swell, be swollen”). Related to belly, bellows.

Adjective

boln (comparative more boln, superlative most boln)

1. (obsolete) swollen; puffed out
   • (Can we date this quote by Ben Jonson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Thin, and boln out like a sail.

Verb

boln (third-person singular simple present bolns, present participle bolning, simple past and past participle bolned)

1. (obsolete) To swell; to puff.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “boln”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)