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Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup. I am sure by your unprejudiced discourses that you love broth better than soup. Addison.

aid to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top.

Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop. [Obs.]

A mold (in the shape of a hollow vessel or incasement) of boiled rice, mashed potato or paste, baked, and afterwards filled with vegetables or meat.

eeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup. "Boiled and clarified." Ure.

b root (Bot.), a disease of cabbages, by which the roots become distorted and the heads spoiled. -- Club topsail (Naut.), a kind of gaff topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short "club" or "jack yard" to increase its spread.

An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear.

A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.

To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.

mical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.

Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.

Boiled rice; rice gruel. [India]

A degree of firmness, density, or spissitude. Let the expressed juices be boiled into the consistence of a sirup. Arbuthnot.

A clear soup or bouillion boiled down so as to be very rich.

t this is now transferred to the genus Ipomæa. The luster of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the stately stems. Tennyson.

A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.

Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. Knolles.

To copy, as a design or painting, by tracing with a pencil on oiled paper, or other transparent substance.

The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties. Dryden.

In decorative art, boiled leather, fitted by the process to receive impressed patterns, like those produced by chasing metal, and to retain the impression permanently.