Difference between revisions of "Boil"

<p> '''(1):''' (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. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (v.) To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (v.) To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger. </p> <p> '''(4):''' (v.) To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling. </p> <p> '''(5):''' (v. t.) To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water. </p> <p> '''(6):''' (v. t.) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt. </p> <p> '''(7):''' (v.) To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves. </p> <p> '''(8):''' (v. t.) To steep or soak in warm water. </p> <p> '''(9):''' (n.) Act or state of boiling. </p> <p> '''(10):''' (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. </p> <p> '''(11):''' (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. </p>

<p> BOIL, L. bullio, bulla, a bubble. </p> 1. To swell,heave, or be agitated by the action of heat to bubble to rise in bubbles as, the water boils. In a chimical sense, to pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor, with a bubbling motion. 2. To be agitated by any other cause than heat as, the boiling waves which roll and foam. 3. To be hot or fervid to swell by native heat, vigor or irritation as the boiling blood of youth his blood boils with anger. 4. To be in boiling water to suffer boiling heat in water or other liquid, for cookery or other purpose. 5. To bubble to effervesce as a mixture of acid and alkali. To boil away, to evaporate by boiling. <p> To boil over, is to run over the top of a vessel, as liquor when thrown into violent agitation by heat or other cause of effervescence. </p> <p> BOIL, To dress or cook in boiling water to seethe to extract the juice or quality of any thing by boiling. </p> 1. To prepare for some use in boiling liquor as, to boil silk, thread or cloth. To form by boiling and evaporation. This word is applied to a variety of processes for different purposes as, to boil salt, or sugar, &c. In general, boiling is a violent agitation, occasioned by heat to boil a liquor is to subject it to heat till it bubbles, and to boil any solid substance is to subject it to heat in a boiling liquid. <p> BOIL, n. A tumor upon the flesh, accompanied with soreness and inflammation a sore angry swelling. </p>

<p> (שְׁחַין, ''Shechin','' rendered "botch" in &nbsp;Deuteronomy 28:27; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 28:35), a burning sore or inflamed ulcer of an aggravated description, either local (as in the case of Hezekiah, &nbsp;2 Kings 20:7; &nbsp;Isaiah 38:21), or covering an extensive surface (as in the case of the Egyptians, &nbsp;Exodus 9:9-11; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 28:27; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 28:35). (See [[Blains]]). It is also applied to the ulcerated spots indicative of leprosy (&nbsp;Leviticus 13:18-20; &nbsp;Leviticus 13:23), and is the term used to designate the disease of Job (&nbsp;Job 2:7), probably the ''Elephantiasis,'' or black leprosy. (See [[Leprosy]]). </p>