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To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce. [Obs.]

A boiling up; effervescence. [Obs.] Boyle.

The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.

d a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.

and loud noise, because of internal pressure; as, the explosion of a gun, a bomb, a steam boiler, etc.

to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.

A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed.

Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer. The elements shall melt with fervent heat. 2 Pet. iii. 10.

Very hot; burning; boiling. The mounted sun Shot down direct his fervid rays. Milton.

causes them to appear as if burnt by fire. -- Fire box, the chamber of a furnace, steam boiler, etc., for the fire. -- Fire brick, a refractory brick, capable of sustaining intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and used for lining fire boxes,…

A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds. [prov. Eng.] Wright.

ollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.

, C13H10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially.

itation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea. Foam cock, in steam boilers, a cock at the water level, to blow off impurities.

A kind of soft sweetmeat made by boiling solutions to the point of crystallization, usually molded; as, cherry fondant.

n so conducted that a mixture of liquids, differing considerably from each other in their boiling points, can be separated into its constituents.

The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.

A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters.

Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc. [Written also furmenty and furmity.] Halliwell.

iddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.