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Potter's clay. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To set free; to release. [Archaic] Till from her hands the spright assoiled is. Spenser.

Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal.

To absolve; to acquit by sentence of court. God assoilzie him for the sin of bloodshed. Sir W. Scott.

A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida).

To soil or encumber with mire and dirt. [Obs.] Shak.

Same as Aleppo boil.

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.

See Boilery.

Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.

One who boils.

A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.

Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena of ebullition. This is different for different liquids, and for the sam…

With boiling or ebullition. And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher. Byron.

is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please. Burke.

One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels. What doth he but turn broiler, . . . make new libels against the church Hammond.

Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun. -- n.

A lotion of linseed oil and lime water, used as an application to burns and scalds; -- first used at the Carron iron works in Scotland.

A mild cathartic oil, expressed or extracted from the seeds of the Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi. When fresh the oil is inodorus and insipid. Castor-oil plant. Same as Palma Christi.

A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.