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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Bologna  \Bo*lo"gna\,  n. 
  1.  A  city  of  Italy  which  has  given  its  name  to  various 
  objects. 
 
  2.  A  Bologna  sausage. 
 
  {Bologna  sausage}  [It.  salsiccia  di  Bologna],  a  large  sausage 
  made  of  bacon  or  ham,  veal,  and  pork,  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Bologna 
  n  1:  the  capital  of  Emilia-Romagna;  located  in  northern  Italy 
  east  of  the  Apennines  [syn:  {Bologna}] 
  2:  large  smooth-textured  smoked  sausage  of  beef  and  veal  and 
  pork  [syn:  {Bologna  sausage}] 




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