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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BO'LUS, n. [L. bolus; Gr. a mass.] A soft mass of any thing medicinal to be swallowed at once, like a pill. It may be of any ingredients, made a little thicker than honey.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a small round soft mass (as of chewed food)
2: a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural boluses) Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek b?los lump Date: 1562 1. a rounded mass: as a. a large pill b. a soft mass of chewed food 2. a dose of a substance (as a drug) given intravenously; specifically a large dose given for the purpose of rapidly achieving the needed therapeutic concentration in the bloodstream

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. boluses) 1 a soft ball, esp. of chewed food. 2 a large pill. Etymology: LL f. Gk bolos clod

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bolus Bo"lus, n.; pl. Boluses. [L. bolus bit, morsel; cf. G. ? lump of earth. See Bole, n., clay.] A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Bole, large pill.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A nick name for an apothecary.

Moby Thesaurus

ball, balloon, bite, bladder, blob, boll, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, capsule, champ, chaw, chew, chomp, cud, ellipsoid, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnash, gob, gobbet, knob, knot, lozenge, morsel, mouthful, munch, nibble, nip, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pellet, pill, prolate spheroid, quid, rondure, snap, sphere, spheroid, spherule, swallow, tablet, troche