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Definition of Overboiling
1. overboil [v] - See also: overboil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overboiling
Literary usage of Overboiling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"Such is their overboiling revengeful temper, that they utterly contemn all those
things as imaginary trifles, if they are so happy as to get the scalp of ..."
2. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"... which may be owing either to the ill quality of the materials, or to overboiling.
... it by overboiling. ..."
3. An Essay Towards a System of Mineralogy by Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1788)
"He fays, that the a^/enic and /all «/ tartar produced an overboiling froth, which
ran off from the crucible; ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... from calm concern To anxious tumult, menacing disdain, And overboiling
wrath.—line say, my friend, How move the rebels?—Are their ranks dispos'd By ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"... of a Warden of the Parish of St. Olave, " in his overboiling Love to the Blue
Party," painting a Cobbler's Shop " of a very deep Blue, Windows, Stall, ..."
6. The history of England from the Revolution to the death of George the second by David Hume (1848)
"Here he formed a resolution which has been censured by some critics in war, as
a measure that savoured more of youthful impatience and overboiling courage, ..."
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