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 |
Boil (v.) To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat |
Boil (v.) To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated |
Boil (v.) To be moved or excited with passion |
Boil (v.) To be in boiling water, as in cooking |
Boil (v. t.) To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition |
Boil (v. t.) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation |
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. |
Boil (v. t.) To steep or soak in warm water. |
Boil (n.) Act or state of boiling. |
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. |
Cologne earth () An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter |
Earth (n.) The globe or planet which we inhabit |
Earth (n.) The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water |
Earth (n.) The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock |
Earth (n.) A part of this globe |
Earth (n.) Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things |
Earth (n.) The people on the globe. |
Earth (n.) Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria. |
Earth (n.) A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta. |
Earth (n.) A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself |
Earth (v. t.) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth |
Earth (v. t.) To cover with earth or mold |
Earth (v. i.) To burrow. |
Earth (n.) A plowing. |
Earth flax () A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus. |
Earth shine () See Earth light, under Earth. |
Earth-tongue (n.) A fungus of the genus Geoglossum. |
Frost (v. i.) The act of freezing |
Frost (v. i.) The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water |
Frost (v. i.) Frozen dew |
Frost (v. i.) Coldness or insensibility |
Frost (v. t.) To injure by frost |
Frost (v. t.) To cover with hoarfrost |
Frost (v. t.) To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather. |
Frost-bitten (p. a.) Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing. |
Frost-blite (n.) A plant of the genus Atriplex |
Frost-blite (n.) The lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album). |
Heaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heave |
Heave (v. t.) To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort |
Heave (v. t.) To throw |
Heave (v. t.) To force from, or into, any position |
Heave (v. t.) To raise or force from the breast |
Heave (v. t.) To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom. |
Heave (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised |
Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc. |
Heave (v. i.) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything |
Heave (v. i.) To make an effort to vomit |
Heave (n.) An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy. |
Heave (n.) An upward motion |
heave heaving | throwing something heavy (with great effort), he gave it a mighty heave, he was not good at heaving passes |
lift raise heave | the act of raising something, he responded with a lift of his eyebrow, fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up |
scorched-earth policy | the target company defends itself by selling off its crown jewels |
heave retcha | an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting, a bad case of the heaves |
face lift facelift face lifting | a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes, give your home a facelift, more than a facelift, the new model marks a fundamental change of direction |
heave heaving | the act of lifting something with great effort |
heavy lifting | difficult work, the boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn't willing to do the heavy lifting |
face lift facelift lift face lifting cosmetic surgery rhytidectomy rhytidoplasty nip and tuck | plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face, an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised, some actresses have more than one face lift |
panting heaving | breathing heavily (as after exertion) |
cutlassfish frost fish hairtail | long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth, closely related to snake mackerel |
ground earth | a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) |
lifting device | a device for lifting heavy loads |
boiling point boil | the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level, they brought the water to a boil |
worldly concern earthly concern world earth | the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife, they consider the church to be independent of the world |
earth science | any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts |
table tipping table tilting table turning table lifting | manipulation of a table during a seance, attributed to spirits |
heave | (geology) a horizontal dislocation |
heave heaving | an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling), the heaving of waves on a rough sea |
tremor earth tremor microseism | a small earthquake |
a Hizballah Hezbollah Hizbollah Hizbullah Lebanese Hizballah Party of God Islamic Jihad Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine Revolutionary Justice Organization Organization of the Oppressed on Earth | a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran, seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon, car bombs are the signature weapon |
Earth earth | the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell), it was hell on earth |
hell hell on earth hellhole snake pit the pits inferno | any place of pain and turmoil, the hell of battle, the inferno of the engine room, when you're alone Christmas is the pits, |
crust Earth's crust | the outer layer of the Earth |
Earth earth world globe | the rd planet from the sun, the planet we live on, the Earth moves around the sun, he sailed around the world |
knoll mound hillock hummock hammock | a small natural hill |
land dry land earth ground solid ground terra firma | the solid part of the earth's surface, the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land, the earth shook for several minutes, he dropped the logs on the ground |
surface Earth's surface | the outermost level of the land or sea, earthquakes originate far below the surface, three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water |
Jack Frost | a personification of frost or winter weather |
earth-god earth god | a god of fertility and vegetation |
earth-goddess earth goddess | a goddess of fertility and vegetation |
earth mother | the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility |
Frost Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost | United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (-) |
Kennan George F. Kennan George Frost Kennan | United States diplomat who recommended a policy of containment in dealing with Soviet aggression (-) |
freeze frost | weather cold enough to cause freezing |
frost heave frost heaving | upthrust of ground or pavement caused by the freezing of moist soil |
ice crystal snow mist diamond dust poudrin ice needle frost snow frost mist | small crystals of ice |
lion's foot gall of the earth Nabalus serpentarius Prenanthes serpentaria | common perennial herb widely distributed in the southern and eastern United States having drooping clusters of pinkish flowers and thick basal leaves suggesting a lion's foot in shape, sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes |
Virginia crownbeard frostweed frost-weed Verbesina virginica | tall perennial herb having clusters of white flowers, the eastern United States |
chufa yellow nutgrass earth almond ground almond rush nut Cyperus esculentus | European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers |
frostweed frost-weed frostwort Helianthemum canadense Crocanthemum canadense | perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers, soalled because ice crystals form on it during first frosts |
heath pea earth-nut pea earthnut pea tuberous vetch Lathyrus tuberosus | European herb bearing small tubers used for food and in Scotland to flavor whiskey |
wild potato vine wild sweet potato vine man-of-the-earth manroot scammonyroot Ipomoea panurata Ipomoea fastigiata | tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root, sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato |
man-of-the-earth Ipomoea leptophylla | a morning glory with long roots of western United States |
truffle earthnut earth-ball | any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber, grow naturally in southwestern Europe |
Frost's bolete Boletus frostii | a fungus with a red cap and a red coarsely reticulate stalk |
boil smut Ustilago maydis | a common smut attacking Indian corn causing greyish white swellings that rupture to expose a black spore mass |
earthtongue earth-tongue | any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum |
frost icing | the formation of frost or ice on a surface |
cutaneous leishmaniasis Old World leishmaniasis oriental sore tropical sore Delhi boil Aleppo boil | leishmaniasis of the skin, characterized by ulcerative skin lesions |
boil furuncle | a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus |