Definitions for boluses

boluses bo·lus

Spelling: [boh-luh s]
IPA: /ˈboʊ ləs/

Boluses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in boluses (belossu).

Definitions for boluses

noun

  1. Pharmacology, Veterinary Medicine. a round mass of medicinal material, larger than an ordinary pill. Abbreviation: bol.
  2. a soft, roundish mass or lump, especially of chewed food.
  3. bole2 .

Origin of boluses

1595-1605; Late Latin bōlus clod of earth Greek bôlos clod, lump; see bole2

Examples for boluses

After the bolus ground has dried (which takes a few minutes) the gold is laid on.

But whatever $54 million antibiotic the bolus of cash might produce will itself become useless after a year or a decade.

The dose of the first may be from 20 to 30 grains in sugar, or made into a bolus; that of the second, from 1⁄4 oz.

Anti-emetic and anti-flatulent; in colic, diarrha, &c.; in the form of a bolus, or made into a mixture.

The dose is two drachms in powder, or the same made into a bolus.

And gave it to him,—a bolus as large as a musket ball, and as heavy.

There you sit snoring, forgetting her ills; Who is to give her her bolus and Pills?

Dr. bolus had, indeed, yielded a little, but not enough to satisfy me.

This bolus is surrounded, as by a bag, by the cast-up lining of the gizzard.

Basilie powder one scruple, conserve of wormwood, a sufficient quantity to make into one bolus for an adult.

Word Value for boluses
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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