[f. BROIL v.1]
1. That burns, scorches, makes very hot.
1555. Fardle Facions, I. i. 24. The broyling heate.
1617. Hieron, Wks., II. 84. Scarcely is the cup gone from his mouth, before he feeleth an increase of his broyling drought.
1820. Byron, Blues, II. 36. To be sure it was broiling.
1865. Trollope, Belton Est., xiii. 150. There is a broiling sun.
2. That is subjected to great heat, that is very hot; spec. that is being grilled.
1648. Gage, West Ind., i. (1655), 2. Which only can and must deliver their scorching, nay broyling souls.
1813. Byron, Br. Abydos, II. xv. Ask the squalid peasant how His gains repay his broiling brow!
1853. Kingsley, Hypatia, x. 117. The savoury smell of broiling fish.
3. quasi-adv., as in broiling hot.
1840. Hood, Up the Rhine, 229. A broiling hot excursion up the country.
1884. Q. Victoria, More Leaves, 180. We stopped here about ten minutes. It was broiling hot.
