Boil :: 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..
Boil :: Boil (v.) To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves..
Boil :: Boil (v.) To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away..
Boil :: Boil (v.) To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger..
Boil :: Boil (v.) To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling..
Boil :: Boil (v. t.) To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water..
Boil :: Boil (v. t.) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt..
Boil :: Boil (v. t.) 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..
Boil :: Boil (v. t.) To steep or soak in warm water.
Boil :: Boil (n.) 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..
Boiler :: Boiler (n.) A vessel in which any thing is boiled.
Boiler :: Boiler (n.) 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..
Boilery :: Boilery (n.) A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making..
Boiling :: Boiling (a.) Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion..
Boiling :: Boiling (n.) The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.
Boiling :: Boiling (n.) Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.
Boilingly :: Boilingly (adv.) With boiling or ebullition.
Emboil :: Emboil (v. i.) To boil with anger; to effervesce.
Emboil :: Emboil (v. t.) To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe.
Engarboil :: Engarboil (v. t.) To throw into disorder; to disturb.