boil2 (boil)

[Early mod. E. also boyl, boyle, E. bull2, bill3, bullet, bul let in, etc. Cf. ebullition.] I. in trans. 1. To bubble up or be in a state of ebullition, especially through the action of heat, the bubbles of gaseous vapor which have been formed in the lower portion rising to the surface and es caping: said of a liquid, and sometimes of the containing ve el: as, the water boils; the pot boils. The same me action is induced by diminished pres sure, as when water boils under the exhausted receiver of an air-pump, or when carbon dioxid liquefied under high pre ure boils upon the removal of the pre ure. See boiling - point and ebullition. 2. To be in an agitated state like that of boiling, through any other cause than heat or diminished pre ure; exhibit a swirling or swelling motion; seethe: as, the waves boil. IMG:content-2277.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To be agitated by vehement or angry feeling; be hot or excited: as, my blood boils at this injustice. Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath. Surrey, Eneid, ii. The plain truth is that Hastings had committed some the blood of Burke boil in his veins. great crimes, and that the thought of those crimes made Macaulay, Warren Hastings. 4. To undergo or be subjected to the action of water or liquid when at the point of ebullition: as, the meat is now boiling. - To boil away, to evaporate in boiling. - To boil over, to run over the top of a ve el, as liquor when thrown into vio 612 lent agitation by heat or other cause of effervescence; hence, figuratively, to be unable, on account of excite ment, indignation, or the like, to refrain from speaking; to break out into the language of strong feeling, especial ly of indignation. - To boil up, to rise or be increased in volume by ebullition: as, paste is ready for use as soon as it has once boiled up; let it boil up two or three times. boist most remarkable boiling springs are the geysers, which throw up columns of water and steam; but there are many others in various parts of the world, often a ociated with geysers, characterized only by ebullition and emi ion of steam. Some of the latter, as in California and New Zealand, are strongly impregnated with mineral matters and variously colored, while others are charged with liquid mud. See geyser. II. trans. 1. To put into a state of ebullition; cause to be agitated or to bubble by the apboilingly (boi'ling-li), adv . In a boiling man plication of heat. Hence-2. To collect, form, or separate by the application of heat, as sugar, salt, etc.-3. To subject to the action of heat in a liquid raised to its point of ebullition, so as to produce some specific effect; cook or seethe in a boiling liquid: as, to boil meat, potatoes, etc.; to boil silk, thread, etc. To boil clear, in soap - manuf., to remove the exce of water from soft soap by boiling it. A concentrated lye is employed to shorten the time of evaporation. - To boil down, to reduce in bulk by boiling; hence, to reduce to smaller compa by removal of what can best be spared; condense by elimination. After a while he [Bowles] developed a talent for condensing into brief and readable form the long and heavy articles in which the great political papers of the day discharged their thunder. On these he began to practice that great art of boiling down which his paper afterward carried to such perfection. G. S. Merriam , S. Bowles, I. 23. To boil dry, in sugar - manuf ., to reduce the thin juice to thick juice by boiling it until it reaches the point of crystallization.