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• boil (v.):

1. ferveo, bŭi, 2, and sometimes 3 (fervĕre: Lucr.): b.ing water, aqua fervens, Cic.
2. fervesco, 3 (to begin to b.): the pots are beginning to b., seriae f., Pl.
3. effervesco, fervi, 3: waters b. when fires are put under them, aquae ef. subditis ignibus, Cic.

II. To be cooked in liquid: infervesco, bui, 3: when this has b.'d, hoc ubi inferbuit, Hor.: Plin. Phr.: to b. quickly (i. e. to become soon soft in b.ing), in coctura celeriter madescere, Col.: comp. inf. B. (9).
III. To be agitated by heat, or in a similar way:

1. fervĕo, 2: the sea b.s with the tide, f. aestu pelagus, Cic.: Virg.
2. aestŭo, 1: the whirlpool b.s, a. gurges, Virg.: the wave is b.ing, a. unda, Hor.
3. effervo (-esco), 3 (to b. over): we have seen billowy Aetna b. over into the fields, ef. in agros vidimus undantem Aetnam, Virg.
4. exaestŭo, 1 (to b. up): Etna b.s up from its lowest depth, Aetna fundo ex. imo, Virg.

1. fervĕo, 2: his soul was b.ing with swelling wrath, animus tumida fervebat ab ira, Ov.: Hor.
2. fervesco, 3.: the mind begins to b. with anger, animus ira f., Lucr.
3. effervesco, 3: Cic.
4. aestŭo, 1: his mind b.s up with anger, mens ex. ira, Virg.: v. also to be on fire.

1. fervĕfăcĭo, fēci, factum, 3: to b. brine, muriam f., Cels.: Plin.
2. infervĕfăcĭo, 3: to b. vinegar, acetum in., Col.
3. cŏquo, coxi, coctum, 3 (gen. term for every kind of cooking): to b. food, cibum [aqua ferventi] coquere, Lucr.: Liv.: Ov.
4. concŏquo, 3 (b. together): Lucr.: Plin.
5. dēcŏquo, 3 (b. down or thoroughly): to b. anything down to half the quantity, aliquid in dimidiam partem d., Hor.: Plin.
6. excŏquo, 3 (b. out or away): b. it till you b. away the half, usque coquito dum dimidiam excoquas, Cato.
7. incŏquo, 3 (b. in or with): to b. roots in wine, radices Baccho in., Virg.: to b. blood with herbs, cruorem herbis in., Hor.: to b. down juice with honey, succum cum melle in., Cels.
8. percŏquo, 3 (b. thoroughly): to b. beef thoroughly, bubulas carnes p., Plin.
9. In pass., to be b.'d: mădeo, ui, 2 (strictly to be soaked; hence, to become tender with boiling): these things shall be b.'d directly; I will see to it, haec madebunt, faxo, Pl.

v. n., fervere (also figuratively of the passions and of men): aestuare (to swell and roar with heat; also figuratively): bullare, bullire (to bubble up). To begin to boil, ebullire, effervescere. To boil enough, defervescere. Boiling hot, fervens. The meats boil, cibaria bullant. To boil over, exundare (of boiling water, Plin., 31, 2, 19). To make to boil, fervefacere. The sea boils, aestuat mare. To boil with envy, invidia aestuare. To boil with anger, ira fervere; saevire:
v. a., fervefacere, infervefacere (make to boil): coquere (cook by boiling). To boil down, decoquere (e.g., acetum ad quartas, Col.). To boil a thing in something, aliquid coquere in or ex aliqua re (e.g., in lacte, ex oleo); incoquere aliqua re or cum aliqua re (e.g., aqua ferventi, cum aqua). To boil quite, percoquere. To boil meats, cibum or cibaria coquere; cibum parare or comparare (general term of preparing meat, etc., for food). Boiled, elixus (opposed to assus): coctus (dressed by fire, opposed to crudus).

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