·add. ·- In decorative art, boiled leather, fitted by the process to receive impressed patterns, like those produced by chasing metal, and to retain the impression permanently.
·noun Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Termed by seamen bully-beef; disliked because all the substance is boiled away to enrich the cook's ...
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