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Fry :: Fry (v. t.) To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts..

Dip :: Dip (v. t.) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water..

Blow-out :: Blow-out (n.) The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam..

Stagger :: Stagger (v. t.) To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam..

Downcome :: Downcome (n.) A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned..

Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler..

Hardbake :: Hardbake (n.) A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc..

Glue :: Glue (n.) A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances..

Gumboil :: Gumboil (n.) A small suppurting inflamed spot on the gum.

Parboiling :: Parboiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parboi.

Receiver :: Receiver (n.) A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine..

Cook :: Cook (v. t.) To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat..

Scaling :: Scaling (a.) Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish; as, a scaling knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc..

Drab :: Drab (n.) A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans..

Saltern :: Saltern (n.) A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.

Crotonine :: Crotonine (n.) A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil..

Piping :: Piping (v.) Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.

Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices..

Ebulliency :: Ebulliency (n.) A boiling up or over; effervescence.

Gelatiniferous :: Gelatiniferous (a.) Yielding gelatin on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.

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