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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, &c. 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.
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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, &c. 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, n. [D. buil; Ger. beule; Dan. bylde; Sax. bile; Arm. buil, a blister; Sw. bula, a protuberance; D. bol, plump; Ger. bolle, a bud, a gem; Ir. buile, rage, madness; Pers. pallo, a wart, an ulcer, a boil; W. bal, a prominence.]A tumor upon the flesh, accompanied with soreness and inflammation; a sore angry swelling. BOIL, v.i. [Fr. bouillir; L. bullio; It. bollire; Sp. bullir, to boil; L. bulla, a bubble; Rus. bul, the noise of boiling water; It. bolla, a bubble or blister; Eth. ፈልሐ faleh, Amh. ፈል fale, to boil; W. balau, to spring. Qu. Sax. weallan, to well, to boil.]- 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.
- To be agitated by any other cause than heat; as, the boiling waves which roll and foam.
- To be hot or fervid; to swell by native heat, vigor or irritation; as, the boiling blood of youth; his blood boils with anger.
- To be in boiling water; to suffer boiling heat in water or or other liquid, for cookery or other purpose.
- To bubble, to effervesce; as a mixture of acids and alkali.
To boil away, to evaporate by boiling.
To boil over, is to run over the top of a vessel, as liquor is 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.
- 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, &c. 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.
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- To be agitated, or tumultuously
moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or
vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be
in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.
- To heat
to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil
water.
- Act or state of boiling.
- A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on
suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small
fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.
- To be agitated like boiling water, by any other
cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling
waves.
- To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation;
as, to boil sugar or salt.
- To pass from a liquid to an aëriform state
or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
- To subject to the action of heat in a boiling
liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.;
as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.
- To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot
or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
- To steep or soak in warm water.
- To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the
potatoes are boiling.
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Boil BOIL, verb intransitive [Latin 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, verb transitive 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, noun A tumor upon the flesh, accompanied with soreness and inflammation; a sore angry swelling.
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