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A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water; as, tea is a common beverage.

One of the series of boilers in which the cane juice is treated in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series. Ure.

A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.

ecially (Mach.), constructed of concentric tubes, either stationary, as in the telescopic boiler, or movable, as in the telescopic chimney of a war vessel, which may be put out of sight by being lowered endwise.

temperature of the air; high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or of boiling.

An instrument for determining altitudes by the boiling point of water.

The liver of the lobster, which becomes green when boiled; -- called also tomalline.

Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling.

A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.

as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes. Tubular boiler. See under Boiler. -- Tubular breathing (Med.), a variety of respiratory sound, heard on auscultation over the lungs in certain cases of disease, resembling that produced by the air passing through the trachea. -- Tubular…

lly (Bot.), composed wholly of tubulous florets; as, a tubulous compound flower. Tubulous boiler, a steam boiler composed chiefly of tubes containing water and surrounded by flame and hot gases; -- sometimes distinguished from tubular boiler.

A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain quite soft in a wooden mortar.

ith conflicting passions; disturbed. His dire attempt, which, nigh the birth Now rolling, boils in his tumultuous breast. Milton.

o care for. -- To turn a flange (Mech.), to form a flange on, as around a metal sheet or boiler plate, by stretching, bending, and hammering, or rolling the metal. -- To turn against. (a) To direct against; as, to turn one's arguments against himself. (b) To make unfavorable or hostile to; as, to turn one's friends a…

ious means, -- as by pancreatic digestion, by putrefaction as of cheese, by the action of boiling acids, etc. Chemically, it consists of oxyphenol and amidopropionic acid, and by decomposition yields oxybenzoic acid, or some other benzol derivative. [Written also tyrosine.]

To take out, or loose, the rivets of; as, to unrivet boiler plates.

To destroy by an explosion from beneath. (c) To explode; as, the boiler blew up. (d) To reprove angrily; to scold. [Slang] -- To bring up. See under Bring, v. t. -- To come up with. See under Come, v. i. -- To cut up. See under Cut, v. t. & i. -- To draw up. See under Draw, v. t. -- To grow up, to grow to maturity.…

The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.

usted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum.

icial formation of vapor; specifically, the conversion of water into steam, as in a steam boiler.