boles
plural of bole
• Blose, Lebos, Sobel, lebos, lesbo, lobes, sobel
Boles (plural Boleses)
A surname.
An unincorporated community in Scott County, Arkansas, United States.
An unincorporated community in Modoc County, California.
An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Missouri.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Boles is the 2426th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 14946 individuals. Boles is most common among White (81.76%) and Black/African American (12.74%) individuals.
Boles
plural of Bole
• Blose, Lebos, Sobel, lebos, lesbo, lobes, sobel
Source: Wiktionary
Bole, n. Etym: [OE. bole, fr. Icel. bolr; akin to Sw. bål, Dan. bul, trunk, stem of a tree, G. bohle a thick plank or board; cf. LG. boll round. Cf. Bulge.]
Definition: The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it. Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. Tennyson.
Bole, n. Etym: [Etym. doubtful.]
Definition: An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet. [Scot.] Open the bole wi'speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin. Sir W. Scott.
Bole, n.
Definition: A measure. See Boll, n., 2. Mortimer.
Bole, n. Etym: [Gr. a clod or lump of earth: cf. F. bol, and also L. bolus morsel. Cf. Bolus.]
1. Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.
2. A bolus; a dose. Coleridge. Armenian bole. See under Armenian.
– Bole Armoniac, or Armoniak, Armenian bole. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 January 2025
(noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
