BOIL
\bˈɔ͡ɪl], \bˈɔɪl], \b_ˈɔɪ_l]\
Definitions of BOIL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level; "the brought to water to a boil"
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come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor; "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius"
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bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point; "boil this liquid until it evaporates"
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be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm"
By Princeton University
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the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level; "the brought to water to a boil"
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bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point, as of water and other liquids; "boil this liquid until it evaporates"
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come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor; "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
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To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
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To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
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To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
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To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
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To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
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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.
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To steep or soak in warm water.
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Act or state of boiling.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
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To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
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To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
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To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
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To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
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To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
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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.
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To steep or soak in warm water.
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Act or state of boiling.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To bubble through the action of heat; in case of liquid, to become so hot that the liquid begins to turn into gas; be cooked in water; to seethe with an agitation like boiling; as, the swollen river boiled and swiried; be excited by passion and anger; as, his blood boiled.
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To heat to the boiling point; cause to bubble by heat; to cook in a boiling liquid.
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An inflamed, festering, and painful tumor in the skin, with a central core.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Rounded inflammation skin, containing pus.
By William R. Warner
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To bubble up from the action of heat: to be hot: to be excited or agitated,-v. t. to heat to a boiling state: to cook or dress by boiling.
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An inflamed swelling or tumor.
By Daniel Lyons
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An inflamed swelling on the skin.
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To bubble from heat; to be agitated.
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To heat to a boiling state; cook in a boiling liquid.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Furunculus-b. Blind, see Furunculus-b. Gum, Parulis-b. Malignant, see Furunculus-b. Wasp's nest, see Furunculus.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A circumscribed, acute, suppurative inflammation of the skin, or of the subcutaneous tissue, forming a hard, rounded or conical, sensitive, and painful swelling, usually attended with the formation and discharge of a central slough called the "core." See also furuncle.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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