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o insnare. When the heart is thus birdlimed, then it cleaves to everything it meets with. Coodwin.

ound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer. Cooley.

d root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria.

To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling. To boil away, to vaporize; to evaporate or be evaporated by the action of heat. -- To boil over, to run over the top of a vessel, as liquid when thrown into violent agitation by heat or other cause of effervescence; to be excited with ardor or passio…

Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.

ucture variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.

To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. "To bone a turkey." Soyer.

In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.

there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.

bottom, at the foundation or basis; in reality. "He was at the bottom a good man." J. F. Cooper. -- To be at the bottom of, to be the cause or originator of; to be the source of. [Usually in an opprobrious sense.] J. H. Newman. He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels. Addison. -- To go to the bottom, to sink;…

red kettle or pan. A braising kettle has a deep cover which holds coals; consequently the cooking is done from above, as well as below. Mrs. Henderson.

To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.

To boil or seethe; to cook. [Obs.]

A nuptia; festival or ceremony; a marriage. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky. Herbert.

To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.

One who broils, or cooks by broiling.

A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.

bout, or travel through, bushes. [U.S.] They were gallant bushwhackers, and hunters of raccoons by moonlight. W. Irving.

An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept. All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north. Sir H. Wotton.

A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.