Boil

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Act or state of boiling.

II. Boil ·vt To steep or soak in warm water.

III. Boil ·v To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.

IV. Boil ·vt To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.

V. Boil ·vt To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.

VI. Boil ·v To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.

VII. Boil ·v To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.

VIII. Boil ·noun 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.

IX. Boil ·v To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to Bubble; to Effervesce; as, the boiling waves.

X. Boil ·vt 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.

XI. Boil ·v 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.

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