To steep or soak in warm water.

Act or state of boiling.

To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are
boiling.

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.

To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause
ebullition; as, to boil water.

To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as,
his blood boils with anger.

To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than
heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.

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.

To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when
heated; as, the water boils away.

To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to
boil sugar or salt.