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One who deals in oils.

The business, the place of business, or the goods, of a maker of, or dealer in, oils.

One who boils.

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

ho excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels. What doth he but turn broiler, . . . make new libels against the church Hammond.

One who despoils.

One who embroils.

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.

One who foils or frustrates. Johnson.

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

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

One who, or that which, recoils.

One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.

One who toils, or labors painfully.

wake from sleep, or excite attention. -- Alarm gauge, a contrivance attached to a steam boiler for showing when the pressure of steam is too high, or the water in the boiler too low. -- Alarm post, a place to which troops are to repair in case of an alarm.

ht. -- Barrel drain (Arch.), a drain in the form of a cylindrical tube. -- Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part of a boiler, containing the flues. -- Barrel of the ear (Anat.), the tympanum, or tympanic cavity. -- Barrel organ, an instrument for producing music by the action of a revolving cylinder. -- Barrel…

devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.

The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.

or gas or the expansive force of steam; to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or steam boiler blows up. "The enemy's magazines blew up." Tatler.

The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.