boyle

present singular third person boyles · participle present boyling · participle past boyled · past boyled

1. EarlyModernobsoleteObsolete 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?

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   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.

   1652, Leonard Phioravant, Three Exact Pieces

   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.

   1666, Philosophical Transactions

plural boyles

1. EarlyModernobsoleteObsolete spelling of boil.

   ... a boyle or impostume comen forthe & broken

   1541, Sir Thomas Elyot, The Castel of Health

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

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

   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.

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

plural Boyles

1. countableuncountableA surname
   1. countableuncountableA surname from Irish.
   2. countableuncountableRobert Boyle, Irish natural philosopher.
2. A place name:
   1. countableuncountableA town in County Roscommon, Ireland.
   2. countableuncountableA village in Athabasca County, Alberta, Canada, named after John Robert Boyle.
   3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Kansas, United States.
   4. countableuncountableA town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States.
   5. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Boyle County