Boiling

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.

II. Boiling ·noun The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.

III. Boiling ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Boil.

IV. Boiling ·adj Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion.

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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.