Index of English words, starting with "bo"

(1) - Boil (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.
(2) - Boil (n.) Act or state of boiling.
(3) - Boil (v. t.) To steep or soak in warm water.
(4) - Boil (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.
(5) - Boil (v. t.) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
(6) - Boil (v. t.) To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
(7) - Boil (v.) To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
(8) - Boil (v.) To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
(9) - Boil (v.) To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
(10) - Boil (v.) To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
(11) - Boil (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.

(1) - Boiler (n.) 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.
(2) - Boiler (n.) A vessel in which any thing is boiled.
(3) - Boiler (n.) One who boils.

(1) - Boiling (n.) Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.
(2) - Boiling (n.) The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.
(3) - Boiling (a.) Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion.
(4) - Boiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boil