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Boil
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) 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.
(2):
(v.) To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
(3):
(v.) To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
(4):
(v.) To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
(5):
(v. t.) To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
(6):
(v. t.) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
(7):
(v.) To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
(8):
(v. t.) To steep or soak in warm water.
(9):
(n.) Act or state of boiling.
(10):
(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.
(11):
(v.) 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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Boil'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/boil.html. 1828.
