What does boyle mean?
Boyle means (Early Modern) Obsolete spelling of boil..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(Early Modern) Obsolete 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?
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.
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.
... a boyle or impostume comen forthe & broken
And they toke it, and layed it on the boyle, and he recouered.
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.
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Boyle means (Early Modern) Obsolete spelling of boil..
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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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