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Gerretz, he received - his inftru&ions, and imitated the 
ftyle of his matter with great fuccefs, not only in his pic¬ 
tures, but in his engravings. Bol’s etchings are bold and 
free. The lights and (hadows in them are broad and pow¬ 
erful, which renders the effect very ftriking; but they 
want that lightnefs of touch and admirable tafle which 
thofe of Rembrant poffefs in fo great a degree. He died 
at Dort, the place of his birth, in 1681, aged feventy. 
BOLABO'LA, one of the Society iflands in the Sou¬ 
thern Pacific Ocean, furrounded by a reef of rocks and 
fmall iflands, about feven leagues in circumference : four 
leagues weft-north-weft from Otaha. Lat. 16. 32. S. Ion. 
151. 52. W. Greenwich. . 
BOLAN'DUS (John), a famous Jefuit, born at Tille- 
mont in the Netherlands, in 1596. He diftinguifhed him- 
felf by writing the lives of the faints, under the title of 
AdLa Sanftorum, of which he publiflied five volumes in 
folio; but died while he was labouring at the fixth, in 
in the feventieth year of his age. The continuators of 
that work are called Bollandijls. 
BOLAROS ANS'K A, a town of Siberia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Irkutfk : eighty miles north-weft of Ilimtk. 
BO'LARY, adj. Partaking of the nature of bole, or 
clay.-—A weak and inanimate kind of loadftone, with a 
few magnetical lines, but chiefly confifting of a bolary and 
clammy fubftance. Brown. 
BOL'BACH, a river of Germany, in the duchy of 
Stiria, which rifes in a lake ten miles fouth-weft of Voit- 
fberg, and runs into the Sulm near Wippelfpach. 
BOL'BEC, or Bollebec, a town of France, in the 
department of the Lower Seine, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftridl of Caudebec : three leagues and a half 
weft of Caudebec. 
BOLCHERETS'KOl, a town of Kamfchatka. Lat. 
53. N. Ion. 174. 45. E. Ferro. 
BOL'CHOV, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Orlov, on the Oka, 32 miles north-north-weft of Orel. 
BOLBITI'NUM, the fecond mouth of the Nile rec¬ 
koning from weft to eaft; now very fmall, choaked up 
with (and, and called le Bras de Belt in. 
BOLD, adj. \_bald, Sax.] Daring; brave; ftout; cou¬ 
rageous; magnanimous; fearlefs; intrepid.—The wicked 
lice when no man purfueth ; but the righteous are bold as 
a Lion. Proverbs. — Executed with fpirit, and without 
mean caution.—Thefe, nervous, bold-, thofe, languid and 
remifs. Rofcommon, —Confident; not fcrupulous; not ti¬ 
morous.—I can be bold to fay, that this age is adorned 
w ith Come men of that judgment, that they could open 
new and undifeovered ways to knowledge. Locke. —Impu¬ 
dent ; rude.—In thy profperity he will be as thyfelf, and 
will be bold over thy fervants. If thou be brought low, 
he will be againft thee. Ecclus. — Licentious; Inch as fhew 
great liberty of fitftion, or exprefSon : 
Which no bold tales of gods or monfters fvvell, 
But human pallions, fuch as with us dwell. Waller. 
Standing out to the view ; ftriking to the eye.—Catachrefes 
and hyperboles are to be tiled judicioutly, and placed in. 
poetry, as heightenings and Ihadows in painting, to make 
the figure bolder, and caufe it to Hand off to fight. Dry den,.. 
Open ; fmooth ; even ; level: a failor’s term-—tier do¬ 
minions have bold acceflible coafts. Howcl. 
To make Bold. To .take freedoms : a phrafe not gram¬ 
matical, though common. To be bold is better; as, I zoas< 
bold to tell the houfe, that fcandalous livings make fcan- 
dalous minifters. Rudgerd. 
To BOL'DEN, v. a. To make bold ; to give confidence: 
I am much too vent’rous 
In tempting of your patience, but am balden'd 
Under your promis’d pardon. Skakefpeare. 
BC)LD.'FACE,yi Impudence, faucinefs; a term of re¬ 
proach and reprehenfion. 
BOLD'FACED, adj. Impudent.—I have fieen thofe 
fillieft of creatures; and, feeing their rare works, I have 
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feen enough to confute all the boldfaced atheifts of this age. 
BramhaH. 
BOLD'LY, adv. In a bold manner; with courage; 
with fpirit : 
I fpeak to fubjefts, and a fubje£l fpeaks, 
Stirr’d up by heav’n, thus boldly for his king. Shakefpeare. 
It may perhaps be fometimes ufed, in a bad fenfe, for 
impudently. 
BOLD'NESS,yi Courage; bravery; intrepidity; fpi¬ 
rit; fortitude; magnanimity: daringnefs.— Herhorfelhe 
rode fo, as might (hew a fearful boldnefs, daring to do that 
which (lie knew not how to do. Sidney. —Exemption from 
caution and fcrupulous nicety.—The boldnefs of tlie fi¬ 
gures is to be hidden fometimes by the addrefs of the 
poet, that they may work their effect upon the mind. 
Dryden. —Freedom; liberty.-—Great is my boldnefsoi fpeech 
towards you ; great is my glorying in you. 2 Corinthians. — - 
Confident truft in God.—Our fear excludeth not that bold¬ 
nefs which becometh faints. Hooker. —Afturance; freedom 
from baflifulnefs; confident mein.— Boldnefs is the power 
to fpeak or do what we intend, before others, without 
fear or diforder. I.ocke. —Impudence.—That moderation, 
which ufeth to fupprefs boldnefs , and to make them con¬ 
quer that fufter. Hooker. 
BOLE ,f The body or trunk of a tree : 
View well this tree, the queen of all the grove ; 
How vaft her bole, how wide her arms are fpread, 
How high above the reft lhe fhoots her head ! Dryden. 
A meafure of corn, containing fix bulhels.—Of good bar¬ 
ley put eight boles, that is, about fix Englifli quarters. 
Mortimer. —A kind of vifeid earth, lefs coherent and more 
friable than clay ; more readily uniting with water, and 
more freely fubliding from it. 
Boles are foft and unftuous to the touch ; adhere to the 
tongue ; and by degrees melt in the mouth, imprefling a 
light fenfe of aftringency. There are a great variety of 
thefe earths; the principal of which are, 1. Armenian 
bole, of a bright red colour with a tinge of yellow : it is- 
one of the hardeft and mod compaft bodies of this clafs, 
and not fmooth and glofiy like the others, but generally 
of a rough and dully furface. It does not eftervefee with 
acids, though fame part of it is dilfolved by all of them. 
Like molt other coloured earths, this kind of bole con¬ 
tains a portion of ferruginous matter, to which the colour 
is owing. It is likewife impregnated with vitriolic acid 
and hence, when mixed with nitre or fea-falt, it extricates 
the acids of thefe falts in the fire. 2. French bole, of 
a pale red colour, variegated with irregular fpecks of 
white and yellow. It is much fofter than the Armenian, 
and flightly eftervefees with acids. 3.. Bole of Blois, 
yellow, remarkably lighter than moll of the other yellow 
earths, and eftervefees ftrongly with acids. 4. Bohemian 
bole, of a yellow colour, with a caff of red, and generally 
of a flaky texture. It is not afted on by acids. 5. Lem- 
nian earth, of a pale red colour, and flightly eftervefees. 
with acids. 6. Silefian bole, of a pale yellow colour,, 
and upon which acids have no fenfible effect. Thefe and 
other earths, made into little malles, and ftamped with, 
certain impreilions, are called terreefigillates. They have 
been recommended as aftringent,. fudorific, and alexiphar- 
mic ; but thefe and many other virtues that have been af- 
cribed to them appear to have no foundation. 
BOLE'NC, a town of France, in the department of 
the Crome : three leagues north of Orange. 
BOLEN'TIUM, anciently a town of Pannonia Superior: 
now Rackersburg in Stiria. 
BOLFPRA, a town of Spain, in Aragon : four leagues 
from Huefca. 
BOLES'KO, a town of Hungary; twenty-eight miles 
north of Topoltzan. 
RO'LESLAFF', fee Bolesi.aw. 
BO'LESLAUS I. and II. illuftrious and valiant kings; 
of Poland. See Poland. 
BO'LESLAW* 
