These are the meanings of the letters BIFOIL when you unscramble them.
- Boil (n.)
A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.
- Boil (n.)
Act or state of boiling.
- Boil (v.)
To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
- Boil (v.)
To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.
- Boil (v.)
To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
- Boil (v.)
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
- Boil (v.)
To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
- Boil (v. t.)
To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
- Boil (v. t.)
To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
- Boil (v. t.)
To steep or soak in warm water.
- Boil (v. t.)
To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.
- filo (unknown)
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- Foil (n.)
A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.
- Foil (n.)
A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
- Foil (n.)
A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.
- Foil (n.)
A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones.
- Foil (n.)
Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.
- Foil (n.)
Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- Foil (n.)
The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed.
- Foil (n.)
The track or trail of an animal.
- Foil (v. t.)
To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
- Foil (v. t.)
To defile; to soil.
- Foil (v. t.)
To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
- Foil (v. t.)
To tread under foot; to trample.