Broil

/bɹɔɪl/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive, Canada, US, obsolete in the UK) To cook by direct, radiant heat..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, Canada, US, obsolete in the UK) To cook by direct, radiant heat.
2. (transitive, Canada, US) To expose to great heat.
3. (intransitive, Canada, US) To be exposed to great heat.
4. Food prepared by broiling.
5. (transitive) To cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To brawl.
7. (archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.

Example Sentences

To broil a pigeon. When you broil them, do them in the same manner, and take care your fire is very clear, and set your gridiron high, that they may not burn, and have a little parsley and butter in a cup. You may split them, and broil them with a little pepper and salt, and you may roast them only with a little parsley and butter in a dish.

To broil Red Mullet. Neither seale nor gut your mullet, wipe them very clean in a cloth, butter half a sheet of writing paper for each fish, put them in, and fasten it all round; have a very clear fire, broil them very gently for twenty minutes, hen put them in a dish, with anchovy sauce and plain butter in boats.

To broil fish. To broil trout in a third way. When they are cleaned and washed, dry them well in a napkin. Then bind them about with packthread, sprinkle them with melted butter and salt, and broil them over a gentle fire, turning them from time to time.

Cluffe, externally acquiescing, had yet made up his mind, if a decent opportunity presented, to be detected and made prisoner, and that the honest troubadours should sup on a hot broil, and sip some of the absent General's curious Madeira at the feet of their respective mistresses, with all the advantage which a situation so romantic and so private would offer.

come to broils

But to give the faireſt Play to every ſide of the Queſtion, I vvill own that there is a Haughtineſs, and Fierceneſs in human Nature, vvhich vvill cauſe innumerable Broils, place Men in vvhat State you pleaſe; but ovvning this, I ſtill inſiſt in charging to Political Regulations, that theſe Broils are ſo frequent, ſo cruel, and attended vvith ſo deplorable Conſequences.

"Away with this prating dotard," said Front-de Boeuf, "lock him up in the chapel, to tell his beads till the broil be over. It will be a new thing to the saints in Torquilstone to hear aves and paters; they have not been so honoured, I trow, since they were cut out of stone."

So, I am safe emerged from these broils! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole […]

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• broils
• broiling
• broiled
• broyl

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