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Boil
BOIL, v.i. [L. bullio, bulla, a bubble.]
1. To swell,heave, or be agitated by the action of heat; to bubble; to rise in bubbles; as, the water boils. In a chimical sense, to pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor, with a bubbling motion.
2. To be agitated by any other cause than heat; as, the boiling waves which roll and foam.
3. To be hot or fervid; to swell by native heat, vigor or irritation; as the boiling blood of youth; his blood boils with anger.
4. To be in boiling water;to suffer boiling heat in water or other liquid, for cookery or other purpose.
5. To bubble; to effervesce; as a mixture of acid and alkali.
To boil away, to evaporate by boiling.
To boil over, is to run over the top of a vessel, as liquor when thrown into violent agitation by heat or other cause of effervescence.
BOIL, v.t. To dress or cook in boiling water; to seethe; to extract the juice or quality of any thing by boiling.
1. To prepare for some use in boiling liquor; as, to boil silk, thread or cloth. To form by boiling and evaporation. This word is applied to a variety of processes for different purposes; as, to boil salt, or sugar, etc. In general, boiling is a violent agitation, occasioned by heat; to boil a liquor is to subject it to heat till it bubbles, and to boil any solid substance is to subject it to heat in a boiling liquid.
BOIL, n. A tumor upon the flesh, accompanied with soreness and inflammation; a sore angry swelling.
boil appears in definitions for these words:
Acetum Ale-berry Aloes Alphenix Anotta Apozem Bac Barley-sugar Beal Beer Bile Bird-eye Bisk Bister Bittern Black-cap Blanc-manger Blanching Boil Boiled Boiler Boilery Boiling Breeze Brew Brewis Brine Brine-pit Broth Bubble Bullition Burgundy Burlesk Butter Cabbage-net Cabbage-tree Caldron Candle Candy Candying Cane-trash Carboncle Castorin Chocolate Chowder Ciderkin Cock-broth Coction Coffee Coffee-pot Colophony Conserve Consistency Cook Copal Copper Core Correct Cream Cullis Custard Declivous Decoctible Decoction Deep Depuration Digest Digester Dip Distend Dough-nut Down Drab Dumpling Ebulliency Ebullient Ebullition Effervesce Effervescent Effervescing Elixate Elixation Emit Estuary Estuate Estuation Evaporate Everbubbling Excoct Exestuation February Ferment Fervent Fervid Fishkettle Fleshbroth Fray Frumenty Fry Furuncle Gelly Giblets Glue Glueboiler Gruel Gum-arabic Hastypudding Head Hommony Indigested Infuse Infusion Ink Instance Jam Jelly Kermes-mineral Kettle Lac Marmalade Marrow-bone Match Meer-schaum Mercury Metheglin Milkporridge Mulse Mum Mush Naphtha Ocra Ordeal Osmund Out Overdo Overdone Panada Pap Papaw Parboil Piping Pipkin Poach Poachard Porridge Porridge-pot Pot Potage Potch Quick-match Rare Raw Rear Rebullition Rise Rum Safety-valve Saltern Samp Sauce Sauce-pan Scald Scalded Scalding Scum Scummings Sea-pye Seethe Seethed Seether Seething Sepawn Shatter Shrink Simmer Simmering Sirup Soap-boiler Sodden Sore Soreness Specht Spume Spunge Steam Steam-boiler Stew Stewed Stewing Still Succotash Sugar Suppurate Swarm Tamarind Taste Teach Train-oil Unboiled Untrolled Wallop Walloping Water-gruel Water-hammer Yew Zeolite
Acetum Ale-berry Aloes Alphenix Anotta Apozem Bac Barley-sugar Beal Beer Bile Bird-eye Bisk Bister Bittern Black-cap Blanc-manger Blanching Boil Boiled Boiler Boilery Boiling Breeze Brew Brewis Brine Brine-pit Broth Bubble Bullition Burgundy Burlesk Butter Cabbage-net Cabbage-tree Caldron Candle Candy Candying Cane-trash Carboncle Castorin Chocolate Chowder Ciderkin Cock-broth Coction Coffee Coffee-pot Colophony Conserve Consistency Cook Copal Copper Core Correct Cream Cullis Custard Declivous Decoctible Decoction Deep Depuration Digest Digester Dip Distend Dough-nut Down Drab Dumpling Ebulliency Ebullient Ebullition Effervesce Effervescent Effervescing Elixate Elixation Emit Estuary Estuate Estuation Evaporate Everbubbling Excoct Exestuation February Ferment Fervent Fervid Fishkettle Fleshbroth Fray Frumenty Fry Furuncle Gelly Giblets Glue Glueboiler Gruel Gum-arabic Hastypudding Head Hommony Indigested Infuse Infusion Ink Instance Jam Jelly Kermes-mineral Kettle Lac Marmalade Marrow-bone Match Meer-schaum Mercury Metheglin Milkporridge Mulse Mum Mush Naphtha Ocra Ordeal Osmund Out Overdo Overdone Panada Pap Papaw Parboil Piping Pipkin Poach Poachard Porridge Porridge-pot Pot Potage Potch Quick-match Rare Raw Rear Rebullition Rise Rum Safety-valve Saltern Samp Sauce Sauce-pan Scald Scalded Scalding Scum Scummings Sea-pye Seethe Seethed Seether Seething Sepawn Shatter Shrink Simmer Simmering Sirup Soap-boiler Sodden Sore Soreness Specht Spume Spunge Steam Steam-boiler Stew Stewed Stewing Still Succotash Sugar Suppurate Swarm Tamarind Taste Teach Train-oil Unboiled Untrolled Wallop Walloping Water-gruel Water-hammer Yew Zeolite
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