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A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat. [Also written kruller.]

A bubbling or boiling over. [Obs.] Bailey.

To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.

The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues. In decoction . . . it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom. Bacon.

tances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them.

A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.

the quality of rapidly becoming dry. Drying oil, an oil which, either naturally or after boiling with oxide of lead, absorbs oxygen from the air and dries up rapidly. Drying oils are used as the bases of many paints and varnishes.

A boiling up or over; effervescence. Cudworth.

Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. "Ebullient with subtlety." De Quincey. The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. Carlyle.

An instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids, especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it boils.

A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.

Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas

A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table.

gallons of water, with a solution of six pounds of potassium bichromate in two gallons of boiling water. It should be used cold.

To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething. [Obs.] Cockeram.

o cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light. Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal arrows. Prior.

Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia.

To boil out; to produce by boiling. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of excocting or boiling out. [Obs.] Bacon.