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With boiling or ebullition. And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher. Byron.

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  • HIGHER-UP
    A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl.
  • HIGHERING
    Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson.
  • BOILED
    Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
  • BOILARY
    See BOILERY
  • BYRONIC
    Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron. With despair and Byronic misanthropy. Thackeray
  • BOIL
    a bubbling motion, from bulla bubble; akin to Gr. , Lith. bumbuls. 1. To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam , or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a
  • BITUMEN
    1. Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements,
  • BOILING
    Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena
  • BITUMEN PROCESS
    Any process in which advantage is taken of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light, as in photolithography.
  • BOILERY
    A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
  • EBULLITION
    1. A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor. 2. Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aƫriform fluid, as in the
  • HIGHER THOUGHT
    See BELOW
  • BOILINGLY
    With boiling or ebullition. And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher. Byron.
  • BOILER
    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. Note: The earliest steam boilers were
  • HIGHER CRITICISM
    Criticism which includes the study of the contents, literary character, date, authorship, etc., of any writing; as, the higher criticism of the Pentateuch. Called also historical criticism. The comparison of the Hebrew and Greek texts
  • REBULLITION
    The act of boiling up or effervescing. Sir H. Wotton.
  • OVERBOIL
    To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.
  • IMBOIL
    See EMBOIL
  • NATAL BOIL
    = Aleppo boil.
  • ALEPPO BOIL; ALEPPO BUTTON; ALEPPO EVIL
    A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.
  • PARBOIL
    through + bouillir to boil, L. bullire. The sense has been 1. To boil or cook thoroughly. B. Jonson. 2. To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.
  • LANCASHIRE BOILER
    . A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.
  • DEBULLITION
    A bubbling or boiling over. Bailey.
  • BISKARA BOIL; BISKARA BUTTON
    See BOIL
  • POTBOILER
    A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living.

 

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