Boil
[bɒɪl] or [bɔɪl]
Definition
(noun.) a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus.
(verb.) immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes; 'boil potatoes'; 'boil wool'.
(verb.) bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point; 'boil this liquid until it evaporates'.
(verb.) come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor; 'Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius'.
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Definition
(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.
(v.) To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
(v.) To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
(v.) To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
(v.) To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
(v. t.) To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
(v. t.) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
(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.
(v. t.) To steep or soak in warm water.
(n.) Act or state of boiling.
(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.
Checker: Presley
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Be agitated by heat.[2]. Bubble, rise in bubbles.[3]. Be ardent, be hot.
v. a. Seethe.
n. Furuncle, pustule, gathering, inflamed tumor.
Typed by Dave
Definition
n. an inflamed swelling or tumour.
v.i. to bubble up from the action of heat: to be hot: to be excited or agitated.—v.t. to heat to a boiling state: to cook or dress by boiling.—ns. Boil′er one who boils: that in which anything is boiled: a vessel in which steam usually for a steam-engine is generated: a vessel for heating water for baths &c.; Boil′ing the bubbling up of any liquid by the application of heat: the act of dressing food by boiling water.—adj. bubbling: swelling with heat or passion.—n. Boil′ing-point the temperature at which liquids begin to boil under heat.—To boil down to reduce in bulk by boiling to extract the substance of to epitomise; To boil over to bubble over the sides of the containing vessel to break out into unrestrained indignation.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a boil running pus and blood, you will have unpleasant things to meet in your immediate future. May be that the insincerity of friends will cause you great inconvenience. To dream of boils on your forehead, is significant of the sickness of some one near you.
Typist: Ted
Examples
- Boil lightly for fifteen minutes, allow to cool, and then skim off the wax which floats on the surface. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- At No. 9 a flask of liquid air is made to boil by the mere heat of the hand. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- To make imitation maple syrup simply boil the syrup until it is reduced back to sugar again, and when it is made properly the flavor and appearance of the genuine article is obtained. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mix, and add one-half its volume of pure coal-tar and boil to a fluid mass. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He got a quart of ether and started to boil it over a naked flame. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Boil the old files or rasps in this solution for half an hour. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The water was boiling hot! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The tea-things were set upon the table, and the kettle was boiling on the hob. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The length of time in boiling depends upon the depth of color desired. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Contaminated water is made safe by boiling for a few minutes, because the strong heat destroys the disease-producing germs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The space between these two points, which represent the temperatures of boiling water and of melting ice, is divided into 180 equal parts called degrees. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- After boiling, an d then cooling rapidly, the contents of the crucible proved a black glass. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Take one table-spoonful of starch, dissolve it in cold water, and when the boiled starch gets lukewarm pour it over it, stir well, and strain. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- In practice, the wood ashes were boiled in water, which was then strained off, and the resulting filtrate, or lye, was mixed with the fats for soap making. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When impure water is boiled, the steam from it does not contain any of the impurities because these are left behind in the vessel. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This dissolves in water, but when boiled in large quantities of the same it is decomposed into glycerine and boracic acid. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I would not recommend an egg boiled by any body else; but you need not be afraid, they are very small, you seeone of our small eggs will not hurt you. Jane Austen. Emma.
- This is due to a certain chemical substance contained in the shell which acts in that way when boiled. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I'd give him up if he was to be boiled alive. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- As the water becomes warmer and warmer the level of the mercury in the tube steadily rises until the water boils, when the level remains stationary (Fig. 9). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The surrounding air is so much hotter than the liquid air that the liquid boils violently. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Even now my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- When the water boils I'll leave it. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- But my blood boils to avenge this poor murdered creature. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The temperature at which a liquid boils is called the boiling point. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- As the liquid boils, steam escapes through the spout, and on reaching the cold bottle condenses and drops into the bottle as pure water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Editor: Miriam