boyle

See also: Boyle, böyle, böylə, and bøyle

English

Verb

boyle (third-person singular simple present boyles, present participle boyling, simple past and past participle boyled)

1. Obsolete spelling of boil
   • 1610?, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

     What makes the Divell so divelish, I would aske you, / Sathan, our common enemie, but his being / Perpetually about the fire, and boyling / Brimstone and Arsnike?

   • 1652, Leonard Phioravant, Three Exact Pieces:

     To cause nurses to have abundance of milk, I have taken the fresh branches or tops of fennell, and boyled them in water or wine, and given it to drinke at dinner or supper, and at all times, for it greatly augmenteth the milk.

   • 1666, Philosophical Transactions:

     Yet I observed that the Water at the burning place did boyle, and heave like Water in a Pot upon the Fire, though my hand put into it perceived it not so much as warm.

Noun

boyle (plural boyles)

1. Obsolete spelling of boil
   • 1541, Sir Thomas Elyot, The Castel of Health:

     ... a boyle or impostume comen forthe & broken

   • 1560, The Bible and Holy Scriptures. With Annotations, page 175:

     And they toke it, and layed it on the boyle, and he recouered.

   • 1613, The holy bible: conteining the old Testament and the New: Newly Transl. out of the Originall Tongues:

     And they took ashes of the fornace, and stoode before Pharaoh , and Moses sprinkled it toward heauen: and it became a boyle breaking forth with blaynes, upon man, and upon beast.

Anagrams

• Boley, obley