Helen Fenton

Boiling: Definition and part of speech

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Boiling

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Boil
  2. a. Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion.
  3. n. The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Boil: Definition and part of speech

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Boil

  1. n. A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.
  2. v. To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation 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.
  3. v. To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
  4. v. To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
  5. v. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
  6. v. To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
  7. v. t. To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
  8. v. t. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
  9. v. t. To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.
  10. v. t. To steep or soak in warm water.
  11. 1n. 1 A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.