Boil
Definition of Boil
Pronunciation: boil v. i. | 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. | | 3. | To pass from a liquid to an aëriform 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. | | 5. | To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling. | 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. | | 4. | To steep or soak in warm water. | n. | 1. | Act or state of boiling. | | 1. | 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. |
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