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'.

Inputed by Evelyn--From WordNet

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.

Checked by Felicia

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

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Editor: Miriam

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