Word Meanings - DEBULLITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bubbling or boiling over. Bailey.

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• BAILEY
  ballium bailey, OF. bail, baille, a palisade, baillier to inclose, 1. The outer wall of a feudal castle. 2. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. 3. A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as,
• BUBBLY
  Abounding in bubbles; bubbling. Nash.
• 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
• BUBBLE SHELL
  A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.
• 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
• 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
• BOILERY
  A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
• BUBBLER
  To cheat; to deceive. She has bubbled him out of his youth. Addison. The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here. Sterne.
• BUBBLE
  1. A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river. Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream. Shak. 2. A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body;
• BUBBLING JOCK
  The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• REBOIL
  1. To boil, or to cause to boil, again. 2. Fig.: To make or to become hot. Some of his companions thereat reboyleth. Sir T. Elyot.
• EMBOIL
  To boil with anger; to effervesce. Spenser.
• GARBOIL
  Tumult; disturbance; disorder. Shak. (more info) uncertain origin; the last part is perh. fr. L. bullire to boil, E.