ppl. a. [f. BOIL v. + -ED.] Brought to the state of ebullition; subjected to boiling; cooked, cleansed, etc., by boiling.

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  ¶ In quot. 1611 boiled stuff = harlots: with allusion to the sweating-tub.

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c. 1420.  Liber Cocorum (1862), 43. Þenne boylyd blode take þou shalle.

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1562.  J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 37. We went where we had boylde beefe.

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1611.  Shaks., Cymb., I. vi. 125. Such boyl’d stuffe As well might poyson Poyson.

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1676.  Lond. Gaz., No. 1137/4. One Set of … Plate Buttons newly boyl’d.

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1863.  Kingsley, Water Bab., v. 185. To cut such capers as you eat with boiled mutton.

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1881.  Morley, Cobden, I. 245. Where men and women subsisted on boiled nettles.

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  fig.  1611.  Shaks., Wint. T., III. iii. 4. These boylde-braines of nineteene and two and twenty.

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  b.  ellipt. Boiled beef or mutton. colloq.

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1844.  Dickens, Christm. Carol (Hoppe). A great piece of cold boiled.

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