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▪ I. overboil, v.|əʊvəˈbɔɪl|
[over- 5, 27.]
1. intr. To boil over; to boil so as to overflow the pot, etc. Chiefly fig.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xx. (1623) 972 Which made her spirits ouer-boyle with impatience. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. lxix, To keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. vi. 1119 No word, lest Crispi overboil and burst.
†b. trans. To cause to boil over. Obs.
1687Montague & Prior Hind & P. Transv. 12 Till Pride of Empire, Lust, and hot Desire Did over-boile him, like too great a Fire.
2. trans. (ˌover-ˈboil.) To boil too much.
1584Cogan Haven Health (1636) 131 Fine meats in hot stomacks, be, as it were, over-boiled, when the grosser are but duely concocted. a1643W. Cartwright Ordinary i. iii, They are A little over-boyl'd or so.
▸ trans. Of a liquid: to boil over so as to overflow (a vessel, etc.).
In quot. 1613 as part of an extended metaphor.
1613J. Stephens Cinthia's Revenge ii. iv. sig. F3v, So did thy turbulent faction ouer-boyle The brim of due obedience. 1883Atlantic Monthly Oct. 514/1 One of the intermittent geysers hisses and bubbles in the rocks above, and now and then, overboiling its cauldron, splashes down into the river. 2003S. Holman Mammoth Cheese ix. 154 Only once before had he ever seen a fog so thick, rushing down from the mountains like soup overboiling a pot.
▪ II. ˈoverboil, n. rare.
[f. the vb.]
phr. on the overboil: in an overboiling condition, a state of ebullience.
1883Ruskin Let. 30 Oct. in Igdrasil (1890) June 218 And my brains always on the overboil, if I don't mind. |