1. the lower house of the modern greek legislature.
2. the senate of 400 founded by solon in ancient athens.
3. A legislative assembly in any one of the ancient greek states.
4. A pear-shaped synthetic sapphire, ruby, or other alumina-based gem, produced by fusing and tinting alumina.
5. A round loaf of white bread.

1. one of the bowls used in the french game of boules.
2. A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
3. A round loaf of bread.
4. A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
5. alternative form of buhl.

1. same as buhl, buhlwork.
2. A legislative council of elders or chiefs; a senate.
3. legislature of modern greece. see legislature.

1. the proper french spelling of buhl.
2. in greek antiquity, a legislative council, originally aristocratic, consisting of the heads of the citizen families, sitting under the presidency of the king.
3. the legislative assembly of modern greece.
4. an obsolete form of bowl.

1. an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork