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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Decoctible :: Decoctible (a.) Capable of being boiled or digested.
Chondrigen :: Chondrigen (n.) The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin..
Biggin :: Biggin (n.) A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor..
Unrivet :: Unrivet (v. t.) To take out, or loose, the rivets of; as, to unrivet boiler plates..
Ebulliate :: Ebulliate (v. i.) To boil or bubble up.
Breeching :: Breeching (n.) The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.
Stoker :: Stoker (v. t.) One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire..
Guanidine :: Guanidine (n.) A strongly alkaline base, CN3H5, formed by the oxidation of guanin, and also obtained combined with methyl in the decomposition of creatin. Boiled with dilute sulphuric acid, it yields urea and ammonia..
Seether :: Seether (n.) A pot for boiling things; a boiler.
Explode :: Explode (v. i.) To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam..
Expansion :: Expansion (n.) The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston..
Simmer :: Simmer (v. t.) To cause to boil gently; to cook in liquid heated almost or just to the boiling point.
Locomotive :: Locomotive (n.) A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix..
Exestuation :: Exestuation (n.) A boiling up; effervescence.
Explosion :: Explosion (n.) A bursting with violence and loud noise, because of internal pressure; as, the explosion of a gun, a bomb, a steam boiler, etc..
Boiler :: Boiler (n.) One who boils.
Exestuate :: Exestuate (v. i.) To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.
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.
Wallop :: Wallop (v. i.) To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise..
Water Gauge :: Water gauge () An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water, or for indicating the height of its surface, as in the boiler of a steam engine. See Gauge..
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