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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as the boiling waves. He maketh the deep to boil like a pot. --Job xii. 31. 3. To pass from a liquid to an a["e]riform state or vapor when heated; as the water boils away 4. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as his blood boils with anger. Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath. --Surrey. 5. To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as the potatoes are boiling. {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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Boil \Boil\, n. Act or state of boiling. [Colloq.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. {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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Boil \Boil\, v. t. 1. To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as to boil water. 2. To form or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as to boil sugar or salt. 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. The stomach cook is for the hall, And boileth meate for them all --Gower. 4. To steep or soak in warm water. [Obs.] 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. {To boil down}, to reduce in bulk by boiling; as to boil down sap or sirup. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: boil n 1: a painful sore with a hard pus-filled core [syn: {furuncle}] 2: the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level: "the brought to water to a boil" [syn: {boiling point}] v 1: come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor; "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius" [ant: {freeze}] 2: cook in boiling liquid; "boil potatoes" 3: bring to or maintain at the boiling point, as of water and other liquids; "boil this liquid until it evaporates" 4: be agitated; of liquids [syn: {churn}, {moil}, {roil}] 5: have violent emotions, such as anger or frustration [syn: {seethe}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: 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.
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