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Boiling   /bˈɔɪlɪŋ/   Listen
Boiling

noun
1.
The application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas.
2.
Cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil.  Synonyms: simmering, stewing.
adverb
1.
Extremely.


Boil

verb
(past & past part. boiled; pres. part. boiling)
1.
Come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor.  Antonym: freeze.
2.
Immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes.  "Boil wool"
3.
Bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point.
4.
Be agitated.  Synonyms: churn, moil, roil.
5.
Be in an agitated emotional state.  Synonym: seethe.



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"Boiling" Quotes from Famous Books



... his mither in him. She's a McBride, and guid blood, but Dame Lucy is juist like some preserves. Ye put in good berries. Ye strain to perfection. The sugar and the spice and the correct time for boiling—skimming and stirring done with your own hand—yet after all the stuff will not jell. It will harden in no mould because it is unstable as water. That is the boy's mother, the Lady Lucy. As for the lad, ...
— Patsy • S. R. Crockett
... minute in order to catch the telegram. It was a pitchy black night, as stifling as a June night can be, and the loo, the red-hot wind from the westward, was booming among the tinder-dry trees and pretending that the rain was on its heels. Now and again a spot of almost boiling water would fall on the dust with the flop of a frog, but all our weary world knew that was only pretence. It was a shade cooler in the press-room than the office, so I sat there, while the type ticked and clicked, and the night-jars ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling
... of sadness, a day of the bad chance. The demoiselle Meelair was not content but that we should leap the Rapide des Cedres in canoe. It was rough, rough—all feather-white, and the big rock at the corner boiling like a kettle. But it is the ignorant who have the most of boldness. The demoiselle Meelair she was not solid in the canoe. She made a jump and a loud scream. I did my possible, but the sea was too high. We took in of the water about five buckets. We were very ...
— The Ruling Passion • Henry van Dyke
... work away in company with the two ragged urchins. Elsie was boiling with rage, but she hid it as well as she could; and as for poor Duncan, he worked away without uttering a word, but with only an occasional inquiring glance at Elsie, which ...
— Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... stood by the fire watching the boiling of the mixture, and reflecting upon the dreadful torture to which I was about to he subjected, the thought of escape flashed upon my mind. The chance was a desperate one; but I resolved to attempt it. I ran up stairs, tied my shirt in a handkerchief, and ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society


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