bologna stone

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bologna stone - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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