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n and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.

See Boilery.

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

One who boils.

A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.

Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena of ebullition. This is different for different liquids, and for the sam…

With boiling or ebullition. And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher. Byron.

iterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.

Same as Aleppo boil.

To boil with anger; to effervesce. [Obs.] Spenser.

To throw into disorder; to disturb. [Obs.] "To engarboil the church." Bp. Montagu.

A variety of water-tube boiler, used chiefly in steam automobiles, consisting of a nest of strong tubes with very little water space, kept nearly red hot so that the water as it trickles drop by drop into the tubes is immediately flashed into steam and superheated.

Tumult; disturbance; disorder. [Obs.] Shak.

A small suppurting inflamed spot on the gum.

See Emboil.

. A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.

= Aleppo boil.

To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.

To boil or cook thoroughly. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living. [Cant]