Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.
Bands smeared with sticky material put tightly around the tree bole early in February has stopped many a female from crawling up to lay her eggs.
After understanding there followed another long silence, until Hetty drew herself up against the bole of the tree and shivered.
She supposed it to be one of the labourers, and in a sudden terror hid herself behind an ash-bole on the brink.
It had been shattered at one corner by a falling tree, whose bolestill lay among the undergrowth.
The storm-felled bole lay there beside us, as if for picture to her parable.
In the intricacies of the forest aisles, amid laden boughs of pine and fir, there was a suggestion of darkness, but all the sky held not enough light to cast the shadow of a bole on the white blank spaces of the snow-covered ground.
Most bole differs from ordinary clay in not being plastic, but in dropping to pieces when placed in water, thus behaving rather like fuller's-earth.
Large quantities of bole occur as red partings between the successive lava flows of the Tertiary volcanic series in the north of Ireland and the west of Scotland.
Bole occurs in like manner between the great sheets of the Deccan traps in India; and a similar substance is also found interbedded with some of the doleritic lavas of Etna.
A squirrel ran down thebole of a dead birch tree and watched the pair with his sharp eyes for some moments before venturing to earth.
Here and there, along the water's edge, a tall tree seemed floating in the air, itsbole and roots cut off by the drifting mist.
At once he leaped up with his fore-feet against the bole of the tree.
It was a gaunt, gray building with never a window, but a bole high in one corner for the sheaves, and a door low in another corner for auld Rab Jamieson.
The bole and door next the street were walled up, and a fine new door opened in the middle, flanked on either side by a great window.
Then, with a loud, merry laugh, she bade me run up to the house and bring her a petticoat and bodice, and leaping into the water she swam across again and helped Will to properly secure his end of the net to the bole of a tea tree.
Take of the Flower of Sal Armoniac half a Scruple, of Cerusse of Antimony one Scruple, of Bole Armenick one Scruple: Mingle them.
Take of Venice Treacle one Dram, Tormentile Roots, Bole prepar'd, of each one Scruple, Syrup of Gilloflowers as much as sufficeth.
We could only, by laying our faces against the bole and looking up, discern a wilderness of boughs carrying a green cloud of leaves, most of them too high for us to discern their shape without the glasses.
I have known of parties being detained for days by one of these sudden roaring floods of water, which came unannounced, the greatbole of mud, sticks and logs sweeping by their camp and taking with it everything in its path.
But young trees do not fall down, and if they did they could not create the havoc caused by the immense bole of the patriarch of the forest when it comes crashing to the earth.
As the sun set they passed within the Fence, and laying down the litter without a word by the bole of the tree, turned and departed.
They fell upon little people with faces of a dusky pallor, one of them crouched against the bole of a tree, a wizened monkey of a man who in all that vastness looked small.
He could see to walk no longer, sudden weariness overcame him, so according to his custom he laid himself down to sleep at the bole of a great tree.
Then, guided by Nya, who clung to Rachel's hand, they walked down thebole of the tree and along a great branch, till at length they reached a place whence they could climb to the ground.
At last, quite of a sudden, for the bole of a tree at the end of the path had hidden it from them, they came upon a clearing in the forest.
As she spoke a man appeared scrambling along the bole towards them; it was Eddo himself.
With a scream of fear he leapt to his feet, and ran swiftly along the bole till he reached the mass of the fallen branches.
Then he was dragged back a few paces and lashed to the bole of a tree, as he guessed, that under which he had been sleeping.
Beneath her to the ground was a fall of full thirty feet, for the base of the bole was held high up by the roots, so that the little woman's hair hung down straight towards the ground, whither she must presently fall and be killed.
And al this dede he for a wonder, That whanne a man for peine cride, The Bole of bras, which gapeth wyde, 3320 It scholde seme as thogh it were A belwinge in a mannes Ere, And noght the criinge of a man.
This Bole is ek with sterres set, Thurgh whiche he hath hise hornes knet Unto the tail of Aries, So is he noght ther sterreles.
Owen walked to the bole of the tree, and breaking off some of the finger-like leaves of the creeper that twined about it, he pressed their milky juice into a little bottle that he had made ready.
On the edge of a high bluff overlooking the rollways and the rushing waters she paused, leaning wearily against the bole of a giant birch.
The warbler does not go scuttling straight down a vertical bole or branch as the nuthatch does, but swings his lithe body from side to side, as if he did not loosen the hold of both feet simultaneously but alternately.
Instead of clinging to the uprightbole of a tree, Master Nuthatch perched crosswise on a twig like a robin or a chickadee, and smoothed his ruffled plumes.
She leant against the bole of the tree and folded her arms across her belt.
He was standing against the bole of a masa'oi tree, leaning on his rifle.
