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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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, etc. 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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus [syn: boil, furuncle]
2: the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level; "they brought the water to a boil" [syn: boiling point, boil] v
1: come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor; "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius" [ant: freeze]
2: immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes; "boil potatoes"; "boil wool"
3: bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point; "boil this liquid until it evaporates"
4: be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm" [syn: churn, boil, moil, roil]
5: be in an agitated emotional state; "The customer was seething with anger" [syn: seethe, boil]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French buillir, boillir, from Latin bullire to bubble, from bulla bubble Date: 13th century intransitive verb 1. a. to come to the boiling point b. to generate bubbles of vapor when heated — used of a liquid c. to cook in boiling water 2. to become agitated ; seethe 3. to be moved, excited, or stirred up <made his blood boil> 4. a. to rush headlong b. to burst forth ; erupt <water boiling from a spring> 5. to undergo the action of a boiling liquid transitive verb 1. to subject to the action of a boiling liquid 2. to heat to the boiling point 3. to form or separate (as sugar or salt) by boiling • boilable adjective II. noun Etymology: Middle English, alteration of bile, from Old English by?l; akin to Old High German p?lla bladder Date: 15th century a localized swelling and inflammation of the skin resulting from infection of a hair follicle and adjacent tissue, having a hard central core, and forming pus III. noun Date: 15th century 1. the act or state of boiling 2. a swirling upheaval (as of water) 3. a boiled dish of seafood, vegetables, and seasonings <a crab boil>; also a gathering at which this dish is served

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. v. & n. --v. 1 intr. a (of a liquid) start to bubble up and turn into vapour; reach a temperature at which this happens. b (of a vessel) contain boiling liquid (the kettle is boiling). 2 a tr. bring (a liquid or vessel) to a temperature at which it boils. b tr. cook (food) by boiling. c intr. (of food) be cooked by boiling. d tr. subject to the heat of boiling water, e.g. to clean. 3 intr. a (of the sea etc.) undulate or seethe like boiling water. b (of a person or feelings) be greatly agitated, esp. by anger. --n. the act or process of boiling; boiling-point (on the boil; bring to the boil). Phrases and idioms: boil down 1 reduce volume by boiling. 2 reduce to essentials. 3 (foll. by to) amount to; signify basically. boiled shirt a dress shirt with a starched front. boiled sweet Brit. a sweet made of boiled sugar. boil over 1 spill over in boiling. 2 lose one's temper; become over-excited. make one's blood boil see BLOOD. Etymology: ME f. AF boiller, OF boillir, f. L bullire to bubble f. bulla bubble 2. n. an inflamed pus-filled swelling caused by infection of a hair follicle etc. Etymology: OE byl(e) f. WG

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Boil Boil (boil), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Boiled (boild); p. pr. & vb. n. Boiling.] [OE. boilen, OF. boilir, builir, F. bouillir, fr. L. bullire to be in a bubbling motion, from bulla bubble; akin to Gr. ?, Lith. bumbuls. Cf. Bull an edict, Budge, v., and Ebullition.] 1. 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. 2. To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves. He maketh the deep to boil like a pot. --Job xii. 31. 3. To pass from a liquid to an a["e]riform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away. 4. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger. Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath. --Surrey. 5. To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling. To boil away, to vaporize; to evaporate or be evaporated by the action of heat. To boil over, to run over the top of a vessel, as liquid when thrown into violent agitation by heat or other cause of effervescence; to be excited with ardor or passion so as to lose self-control.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Boil Boil, n. Act or state of boiling. [Colloq.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Boil Boil, n. [Influenced by boil, v. See Beal, Bile.] 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. A blind boil, one that suppurates imperfectly, or fails to come to a head. Delhi boil (Med.), a peculiar affection of the skin, probably parasitic in origin, prevailing in India (as among the British troops) and especially at Delhi.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Boil Boil, v. t. 1. To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water. 2. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt. 3. 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. The stomach cook is for the hall, And boileth meate for them all. --Gower. 4. To steep or soak in warm water. [Obs.] To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense can not inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner. --Bacon. To boil down, to reduce in bulk by boiling; as, to boil down sap or sirup.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(boils, boiling, boiled) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. When a hot liquid boils or when you boil it, bubbles appear in it and it starts to change into steam or vapour. I stood in the kitchen, waiting for the water to boil... Boil the water in the saucepan and add the sage... ...a saucepan of boiling water. VERB: V, V n, V-ing 2. When you boil a kettle or pan, or put it on to boil, you heat the water inside it until it boils. He had nothing to do but boil the kettle and make the tea... Marianne put the kettle on to boil. VERB: V n, V 3. When a kettle or pan is boiling, the water inside it has reached boiling point. Is the kettle boiling? VERB: only cont, V 4. When you boil food, or when it boils, it is cooked in boiling water. Boil the chick peas, add garlic and lemon juice... I'd peel potatoes and put them on to boil. ...boiled eggs and toast. VERB: V n, V, V-ed 5. If you are boiling with anger, you are very angry. I used to be all sweetness and light on the outside, but inside I would be boiling with rage. VERB: usu cont, V with n 6. A boil is a red, painful swelling on your skin, which contains a thick yellow liquid called pus. = cyst N-COUNT 7. see also boiling 8. When you bring a liquid to the boil, you heat it until it boils. When it comes to the boil, it begins to boil. Put water, butter and lard into a saucepan and bring slowly to the boil. PHRASE: V inflects 9. to make someone's blood boil: see blood

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(rendered "botch" in Deut. 28:27, 35), an aggravated ulcer, as in the case of Hezekiah (2 Kings 20:7; Isa. 38:21) or of the Egyptians (Ex. 9:9, 10, 11; Deut. 28:27, 35). It designates the disease of Job (2:7), which was probably the black leprosy.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. 1. Be agitated by heat, be in ebullition. 2. Be in violent agitation, seethe, foam, froth. 3. Bubble, rise in bubbles. 4. Be ardent, be hot, be wildly turbulent, rage. II. v. a. Seethe. III. n. Furuncle, pustule, gathering, inflamed tumor.

Moby Thesaurus

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