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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. t.) To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water..

Boiling :: Boiling (n.) The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.

Effervesce :: Effervesce (v. i.) To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form..

Prime :: Prime (v. i.) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed; -- said of a steam boiler..

Rebullition :: Rebullition (n.) The act of boiling up or effervescing.

Boilingly :: Boilingly (adv.) With boiling or ebullition.

Hypsometer :: Hypsometer (n.) An instrument for measuring heights by observation of barometric pressure; esp., one for determining heights by ascertaining the boiling point of water. It consists of a vessel for water, with a lamp for heating it, and an inclosed thermometer for showing the temperature of ebullition..

Ebullition :: Ebullition (n.) A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper..

Effervescency :: Effervescency (n.) A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid..

Ebullition :: Ebullition (n.) A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.

Seethe :: Seethe (v. i.) To be a state of ebullition or violent commotion; to be hot; to boil.

Bullition :: Bullition (v. i.) The action of boiling; boiling. [Obs.] See Ebullition.

Defervescency :: Defervescency (n.) A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness.

Ebullition :: Ebullition (n.) Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali..

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