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  • English Word Boil Definition To steep or soak in warm water.
  • English Word Boil Definition Act or state of boiling.
  • English Word Boil Definition 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.
  • English Word Boilary Definition See Boilery.
  • English Word Boiled Definition of Boil
  • English Word Boiled Definition Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
  • English Word Boiler Definition One who boils.
  • English Word Boiler Definition A vessel in which any thing is boiled.
  • English Word Boiler Definition A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.
  • English Word Boilery Definition A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
  • English Word Boiling Definition of Boil
  • English Word Boiling Definition Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion.
  • English Word Boiling Definition The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.
  • English Word Boiling Definition Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.
  • English Word Boilingly Definition With boiling or ebullition.
  • English Word Bois d'arc Definition The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca).
  • English Word Bois durci Definition A hard, highly polishable composition, made of fine sawdust from hard wood (as rosewood) mixed with blood, and pressed.
  • English Word Boist Definition A box.
  • English Word Boisterous Definition Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful.
  • English Word Boisterous Definition Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy.
  • English Word Boisterous Definition Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous behavior.
  • English Word Boisterous Definition Vehement; excessive.
  • English Word Boisterously Definition In a boisterous manner.
  • English Word Boisterousness Definition The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.
  • English Word Boistous Definition Rough or rude; coarse; strong; violent; boisterous; noisy.
  • English Word Bojanus organ Definition A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney.
  • English Word Bokadam Definition See Cerberus.
  • English Word Boke Definition To poke; to thrust.
  • English Word Bolar Definition Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.
  • English Word Bolas Definition A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.