Definition of boil

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Boil (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..

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Styca :: Styan (n.) See Sty, a boil..
Brew :: Brew (v. t.) To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation..
Decoctible :: Decoctible (a.) Capable of being boiled or digested.
Caldron :: Caldron (n.) A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.].
Fire :: Fire (v. t.) To feed or serve the fire of; as, to fire a boiler..
Priming :: Priming (n.) The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder..
Float :: Float (v. i.) The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler..
Casserole :: Casserole (n.) A mold (in the shape of a hollow vessel or incasement) of boiled rice, mashed potato or paste, baked, and afterwards filled with vegetables or meat..
Fry :: Fry (v. i.) To simmer; to boil.
Odmyl :: Odmyl (n.) A volatile liquid obtained by boiling sulphur with linseed oil. It has an unpleasant garlic odor.
Glue :: Glue (n.) A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances..
Ebullient :: Ebullient (a.) Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing..
Fritter :: Fritter (v. t.) A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters..
Taffy :: Taffy (n.) A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans.
Saltern :: Saltern (n.) A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.
Boiler :: Boiler (n.) A vessel in which any thing is boiled.
Emboil :: Emboil (v. i.) To boil with anger; to effervesce.
Seethe :: Seethe (v. i.) To be a state of ebullition or violent commotion; to be hot; to boil.
Neurine :: Neurine (n.) A poisonous organic base (a ptomaine) formed in the decomposition of protagon with boiling baryta water, and in the putrefraction of proteid matter. It was for a long time considered identical with choline, a crystalline body originally obtained from bile. Chemically, however, choline is oxyethyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide, while neurine is vinyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide..
Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching..
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