Definition of boil

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Boil (v.) To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling..

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Rupture :: Rupture (n.) A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion..
Cerebrin :: Cerebrin (n.) A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance..
Doughnut :: Doughnut (n.) A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.
Boil :: Boil (v.) To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling..
Rum :: Rum (n.) A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor..
Gruel :: Gruel (n.) A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge..
Saltern :: Saltern (n.) A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.
Botch :: Botch (n.) A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
Gelatine :: Gelatine (n.) Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the collagen of various kinds of connective tissue (as tendons, bones, ligaments, etc.). Its distinguishing character is that of dissolving in hot water, and forming a jelly on cooling. It is an important ingredient of calf's-foot jelly, isinglass, gl
Zilla :: Zilla (n.) A low, thorny, suffrutescent, crucifeous plant (Zilla myagroides) found in the deserts of Egypt. Its leaves are boiled in water, and eaten, by the Arabs..
Stygial :: Stye (n.) See Sty, a boil..
Panade :: Panade (n.) Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored..
Styan :: Sty (v. i.) An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.
Galantine :: Galantine (n.) A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold..
Bisk :: Bisk (n.) Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together.
Recoct :: Recoct (v. t.) To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct..
Welt :: Welt (n.) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint..
Tyrosin :: Tyrosin (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance present in small amount in the pancreas and spleen, and formed in large quantity from the decomposition of proteid matter by various means, -- as by pancreatic digestion, by putrefaction as of cheese, by the action of boiling acids, etc. Chemically, it consists of oxyphenol and amidopropionic acid, and by decomposition yields oxybenzoic acid, or some other benzol derivative..
Pipkin :: Pipkin (n.) A small earthen boiler.
Decoctible :: Decoctible (a.) Capable of being boiled or digested.
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