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To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table. Boiled the flesh, and spread the board. Tennyson. To sprad cloth, to unfurl sail. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat. [Local, U.S.]

h hyacinth (Bot.), the grape hyacinth; -- so called because the flowers have the smell of boiled starch. See under Grape.

A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.

Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians. [Written also suckatash.]

Boiled Indian meal; hasty pudding; mush. [Written also sepawn, sepon, and suppawn.] [Local, U.S.]

A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans. [Written also, in England, toffy.]

An aroid plant (Caladium sagittæfolium), the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies. [Written also tannier.]

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

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

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

iquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boiled and seasoned.

escent, crucifeous plant (Zilla myagroides) found in the deserts of Egypt. Its leaves are boiled in water, and eaten, by the Arabs.