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A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling.

To boil or bubble up. [Obs.] Prynne.

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.

Specifically: (Steam Boilers) An arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney.

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.

Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils. [R.] Deut. xxviii. 27.

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.

of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation. Escape pipe (Steam Boilers), a pipe for carrying away steam that escapes through a safety valve. -- Escape valve (Steam Engine), a relief valve; a safety valve. See under Relief, and Safety. -- Escape wheel (Horol.), the wheel of an escapement.…

A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth. [Obs.] Boyle.

To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated. Bacon.

of Essex evaporated his thoughts in a sonnet. Sir. H. Wotton. Evaporating surface (Steam Boilers), that part of the heating surface with which water is in contact.

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

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