Bologna

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bologna \Bo*lo"gna\, n.
     1. A city of Italy which has given its name to various
        objects.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A Bologna sausage; also informally called {baloney}.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     {Bologna sausage} [It. salsiccia di Bologna], a large sausage
        made of bacon or ham, beef, veal, and pork, cooked and
        smoked, 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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "bologna":
     Vienna sausage, bangers, black pudding, blood pudding,
     braunschweiger, frank, frankfurter, gooseliver, headcheese,
     hot dog, knockwurst, liver sausage, liverwurst, salami, saucisse,
     sausage, weenie, wiener, wienerwurst, wienie