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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. |
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To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than
heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves. |
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To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when
heated; as, the water boils away. |
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To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as,
his blood boils with anger. |
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To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are
boiling. |
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To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause
ebullition; as, to boil water. |
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To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to
boil sugar or salt. |
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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. |
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To steep or soak in warm water. |
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Act or state of boiling. |
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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. |