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To act upon (anything) by continued immersion in boiling liquid; to subject to heat in boiling water. To prepare, make, or produce by boiling.
To prepare or produce by boiling. Obsolete.
transitive. To prepare by boiling or application of heat; to dissolve by the aid of heat and moisture.