Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Boiling
boiling, verbal adj. [ME < L. bullī-re, to form bubbles.]
Churning; seething; rolling; raging; agitating; wrenching; writhing; turning; spiraling; funneling; [fig.] windy; stormy; cyclone-like; hurricane-like.
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