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Definition of 'boil'

noun

A painful sore with a hard core filled with pus [syn: boil, furuncle]

noun

The temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level; "they brought the water to a boil" [syn: boiling point, boil]

verb

Come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor; "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius" [ant: freeze]

verb

Immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes; "boil potatoes"; "boil wool"

verb

Bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point; "boil this liquid until it evaporates"

verb

Be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm" [syn: churn, boil, moil, roil]

verb

Be in an agitated emotional state; "The customer was seething with anger" [syn: seethe, boil]

From: GCIDE

From: GCIDE

Boil \Boil\ (boil), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Boiled (boild); p. pr. & vb. n. Boiling.] [OE. boilen, OF. boilir, builir, F. bouillir, fr. L. bullire to be in a bubbling motion, from bulla bubble; akin to Gr. ?, Lith. bumbuls. Cf. Bull an edict, Budge, v., and Ebullition.]
1. 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. [1913 Webster]
2. To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves. [1913 Webster]
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot. --Job xii. 31. [1913 Webster]
3. To pass from a liquid to an a["e]riform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away. [1913 Webster]
4. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger. [1913 Webster]
Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath. --Surrey. [1913 Webster]
5. To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling. [1913 Webster]
To boil away, to vaporize; to evaporate or be evaporated by the action of heat.
To boil over, to run over the top of a vessel, as liquid when thrown into violent agitation by heat or other cause of effervescence; to be excited with ardor or passion so as to lose self-control. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Boil \Boil\, v. t.
1. To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water. [1913 Webster]
2. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt. [1913 Webster]
3. 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. [1913 Webster]
The stomach cook is for the hall, And boileth meate for them all. --Gower. [1913 Webster]
4. To steep or soak in warm water. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense can not inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
To boil down, to reduce in bulk by boiling; as, to boil down sap or sirup. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Boil \Boil\, n. [Influenced by boil, v. See Beal, Bile.] 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. [1913 Webster]
A blind boil, one that suppurates imperfectly, or fails to come to a head.
Delhi boil (Med.), a peculiar affection of the skin, probably parasitic in origin, prevailing in India (as among the British troops) and especially at Delhi. [1913 Webster]

Boil (rendered "botch" in Deut. 28:27, 35), an aggravated ulcer, as in the case of Hezekiah (2 Kings 20:7; Isa. 38:21) or of the Egyptians (Ex. 9:9, 10, 11; Deut. 28:27, 35). It designates the disease of Job (2:7), which was probably the black leprosy.