Definition of boil

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Boil (v. t.) To steep or soak in warm water.

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Decoctible :: Decoctible (a.) Capable of being boiled or digested.
Ghee :: Ghee (n.) Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil..
Galantine :: Galantine (n.) A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold..
Bullary :: Bullary (n.) A place for boiling or preparing salt; a boilery.
Gathering :: Gathering (n.) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
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..
Priming :: Priming (n.) The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder..
Furring :: Furring (v. t.) A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit..
Incrustation :: Incrustation (n.) A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler..
Gumboil :: Gumboil (n.) A small suppurting inflamed spot on the gum.
Bile :: Bile (n.) A boil.
Wallop :: Wallop (v. i.) To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise..
Samshu :: Samshu (n.) A spirituous liquor distilled by the Chinese from the yeasty liquor in which boiled rice has fermented under pressure.
Quirboilly :: Quirboilly (n.) Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor..
Chondrigen :: Chondrigen (n.) The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin..
Estuate :: Estuate (v. i.) To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.
Bouilli :: Bouilli (n.) Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.
Boil :: Boil (v.) To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves..
Stiriated :: Stirabout (n.) A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding..
Boil :: Boil (v. t.) To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water..
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