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To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
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 steep or soak in warm 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.
See Boilery.
of Boil
Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
One who boils.
A vessel in which any thing is boiled.
A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.
A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
of Boil
Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.
The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.
Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion.
With boiling or ebullition.
The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca).
A hard, highly polishable composition, made of fine sawdust from hard wood (as rosewood) mixed with blood, and pressed.
A box.