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Webster 1913 Edition


Bologna

Bo-lo′gna

,
Noun.
1.
A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.
2.
A Bologna sausage; also informally called
baloney
.
Bologna sausage
[It. salsiccia di
Bologna
]
,
a large sausage made of bacon or ham, beef, veal, and pork, cooked and smoked, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin.
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Bologna stone
(Min.)
,
radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined.
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Bologna vial
,
a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.