Bologna

Bo·lo·gna

Bologna

n.
  1. A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.
  2. A Bologna sausage; also informally called baloney.

Phrases & Compounds

Bologna sausage
a large sausage made of bacon or ham, beef, veal, and pork, cooked and smoked, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin.
Bologna stone
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.