boil

boil
    n 1: a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus [syn:
         {boil}, {furuncle}]
    2: the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level; "they
       brought the water to a boil" [syn: {boiling point}, {boil}]
    v 1: come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to
         vapor; "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius" [ant: {freeze}]
    2: immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking
       purposes; "boil potatoes"; "boil wool"
    3: bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point; "boil this
       liquid until it evaporates"
    4: be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm" [syn:
       {churn}, {boil}, {moil}, {roil}]
    5: be in an agitated emotional state; "The customer was seething
       with anger" [syn: {seethe}, {boil}]
    

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.
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   2. To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than
      heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
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            He maketh the deep to boil like a pot. --Job xii.
                                                  31.
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   3. To pass from a liquid to an a["e]riform state or vapor
      when heated; as, the water boils away.
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   4. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid;
      as, his blood boils with anger.
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            Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath.
                                                  --Surrey.
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   5. To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes
      are boiling.
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   {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.
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Boil \Boil\, n.
   Act or state of boiling. [Colloq.]
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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.
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   {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.
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Boil \Boil\, v. t.
   1. To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause
      ebullition; as, to boil water.
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   2. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to
      boil sugar or salt.
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   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.
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            The stomach cook is for the hall,
            And boileth meate for them all.       --Gower.
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   4. To steep or soak in warm water. [Obs.]
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            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.
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   {To boil down}, to reduce in bulk by boiling; as, to boil
      down sap or sirup.
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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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      tumidity, tumor, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence,
      turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, turmoil, twitter, ulcer,
      ulceration, unease, unrest, upset, wale, welt, wen, wheal, whelk,
      whitlow, work, wound