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(c) To interrupt; as, to cut off communication; to cut off (the flow of) steam from (the boiler to) a steam engine. (d) To intercept; as,, to cut off an enemy's retreat.

To boil over. [Obs.]

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.

Capable of being boiled or digested.

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.

highly in cooking, as with pepper. A deviled leg of turkey. W. Irving. deviled egg a hard-boiled egg, sliced into halves and with the yolk removed and replaced with a paste, usually made from the yolk and mayonnaise, seasoned with salt and/or spices such as paprika.

To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

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

receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.

of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.

engine, a small auxiliary engine not used for propelling, but for pumping water into the boilers, raising heavy weights, and like purposes. -- Donkey pump, a steam pump for feeding boilers, extinguishing fire, etc.; -- usually an auxiliary. -- Donkey's eye (Bot.), the large round seed of the Mucuna pruriens, a tropi…

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

From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions. Arbuthnot.

ing combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.

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

lks draw deep." Shak. To draw to a head. (a) (Med.) To begin to suppurate; to ripen, as a boil. (b) Fig.: To ripen, to approach the time for action; as, the plot draws to a head.

t constructors of it. -- Dry pipe (Steam Engine), a pipe which conducts dry steam from a boiler. -- Dry plate (Photog.), a glass plate having a dry coating sensitive to light, upon which photographic negatives or pictures can be made, without moistening. -- Dry-plate process, the process of photographing with dry pl…

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 stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.