overboil
(verb) boil excessively; “The peas are overboiled”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
overboil (third-person singular simple present overboils, present participle overboiling, simple past and past participle overboiled)
(ambitransitive) To boil excessively.
• underboil
• boil over, boilover
Source: Wiktionary
O`ver*boil", v. i.
Definition: To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 December 2024
(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
