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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.
boiled
BOILED, pp. Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of boiling liquor.
boiling
BOILING, ppr. Bubbling; heaving in bubbles; being agitated as boiling liquor; swelling with heat, ardor or passion; dressing or preparing for some purpose by hot water.
BOILING, n. The act or state of bubbling; agitation by heat; ebullition; the act of dressing by hot water; the act of preparing by hot water, or of evaporating by heat.