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To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat. The planets and comets had been broiling in the sun. Cheyne.

aight lines which join a number of given points taken in some specified order. -- Broken meat, fragments of meat or other food. -- Broken number, a fraction. -- Broken weather, unsettled weather.

To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.

A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire.

To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat. Your meat doth burn, quoth I. Shak.

A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia.

To preserve by putting in sealed cans [U. S.] "Canned meats" W. D. Howells. Canned goods, a general name for fruit, vegetables, meat, or fish, preserved in hermetically sealed cans.

A place where the business of canning fruit, meat, etc., is carried on. [U. S.]

A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds. Caraways, or biscuits, or some other [comfits]. Cogan.

To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil. [Obs.] A short-legged hen daintily carbonadoed. Bean. & Fl.

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, found in extract of meat, and related to xanthin.

To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion. "To carve a capon." Shak.

One who carves or divides meat at table.

) of boiled rice, mashed potato or paste, baked, and afterwards filled with vegetables or meat.

A kind of meat pie. [Obs.]

A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.

noodles, etc. It consists typically of bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, etc., and sliced meats, fried and flavored with sesame oil. [U. S.]

tting by strokes. Chopping block, a solid block of wood on which butchers and others chop meat, etc. -- Chopping knife, a knife for chopping or mincing meat, vegetables, etc.; -- usually with a handle at the back of the blade instead of at the end.

Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together).

Minced meat. [Obs.] Bacon.