Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Bologna"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bologna \Bo*lo"gna\, n.
1. A city of Italy which has given its name to various
objects.

2. A Bologna sausage.

{Bologna sausage} [It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage
made of bacon or ham, veal, and pork, chopped fine and
inclosed in a skin.

{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.

{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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

Bologna
n 1: the capital of Emilia-Romagna; located in northern Italy
east of the Apennines [syn: {Bologna}]
2: large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and
pork [syn: {Bologna sausage}]


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