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Anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat. [Local, U.S.]

; to tarnish. Of honor void, Of innocence, of faith, of purity, Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained. Milton.

hyacinth (Bot.), the grape hyacinth; -- so called because the flowers have the smell of boiled starch. See under Grape.

A slice of beef, broiled, or cut for broiling; -- also extended to the meat of other large animals; as, venison steak; bear steak; pork steak; turtle steak.

Stuck; spoiled in making. [Scot.] Stickit minister, a candidate for the clerical office who fails, disqualified by incompetency or immorality.

A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.

Coiled into the shape of a screw or a helix.

Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety. Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility in nice divisions. Locke.

Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians. [Written also suckatash.]

To become soiled or tarnished. Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding. Bacon.

Boiled Indian meal; hasty pudding; mush. [Written also sepawn, sepon, and suppawn.] [Local, U.S.]

A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans. [Written also, in England, toffy.]

An aroid plant (Caladium sagittæfolium), the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies. [Written also tannier.]

A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.

Soiled by handling.

s of a cable, the ranges of fakes, or windings, of a cable, laid one within another when coiled.

To weary; to overlabor. [Obs.] "Toiled with works of war." Shak.

The liver of the lobster, which becomes green when boiled; -- called also tomalline.

Twisted; wreathed; coiled.

tomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food. How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled Shak.