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BOLUS

Volume 3 · 88 words · 1823 Edition

in Pharmacy, an extemporaneous form of a medicine, soft, coherent, a little thicker than honey, and the quantity of which is a little morsel or mouthful; for which reason it is by some called buccella.

ROMAL, a town of Luxemburg in the Netherlands, situated on the river Ourt, in E. Long. 5. 30. N. Lat. 50. 20.

ROMB, in military affairs, a large shell of cast iron, having a great vent to receive the fusee, which is made of wood. The shell being filled with gunpowder, the fusee