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buillir (s.xii1/3)

The form bollir is a cross reference to the following entry:

buillir (s.xii1/3)

boiler,  boilir,  boiller,  boillir,  bolhir,  bolir;  boulir;  builir,  builler,  buillier,  buler,  bulier,  bulir,  bullir,  bullire,  buyler;  (buildre );
ind.pr.1 buil; 
ind.pr.3 beut,  boilt,  boit,  bolt,  bout,  built,  buolt,  bult; 
ind.impf.3 buillout; 
pret.6 bulirent,  bullirent; 
fut.3 boudra,  boutra,  buildra,  buldrat,  bullirat; 
imper.5 boilez,  boillés,  boillez,  buillyet,  bulliez; 
p.pr. boilant,  boillant,  boilliant,  boliaunt,  buillant,  buillisant,  buillissant; 
p.p. builli,  bulli  
  FEW:  bullire 1,619a Gdf:  boudre 1,696b GdfC:  bouilli 8,352a / bouillir 8,352a TL: bolir 1,1045 DEAF:  bolir  DMF:  bouillir  TLF:  bouillir  OED:  boil v.  MED:  boillen v.  DMLBS:  bullire 224a

v.trans.

1to boil (a liquid), bring to a boil
( MS: s.xii )  Pernez [...] blanc vin e encens e olie de olive e buillez ensemble  Pop Med 66.8
( MS: s.xiiiex )  bullio gallice: (D) bulier  TLL ii 160
to heat
( MS: s.xiii2 ) estuo: (A) bulier (var. (D: s.xiii2) bullier )  TLL ii 17.972
2to boil, place into or subject to boiling liquid
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Les autres fist tut vifs rostir E les autres en plum builir  Rom de Rou wace i 196.942
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  En peiz esteient set feiz boilliz  Gui War 11119
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  qe nous [...] ne soiom builliz en enfer  Ancren1 222.23
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2 )  rouge cerfoil [...] boilez en ewe  A-N Med ii 212
3to spawn, produce in abundance
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Buillid lur terre reines (Latin: Ebullivit terra eorum ranas)  Camb Ps 193.CIV.30
buillir desque a la meité
meité

v.intrans.

to boil
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  E qui lungement la i (=a certain stone in water) larra, Senz autre fu l’ewe buildra  Lapid 210.194
( MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Le saunc del cors li bout e frit  Pop Med 180.982
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  Ciz vins [...] comence a eschafer et bolhir et monte a l’entree de l’estomac  Waterford busby 260.S60.7
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2 )  un hanape (l. hanapé?) de vin mis en une paele sur le feu dekes le vin comence ad boiler  A-N Med ii 220
to be boiled
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  (in Hell:) Pose del jurn buil en la peiz  S Brend mup 1371
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xivin )  [...] en einfern dait tutdis buildre  Corset ANTS 2052
to bubble up
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  Ewe [...] par funtaignes bult  Pet Phil 1456
to spill out
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Idonc put l’em veer [...] Les helmes depecer e cervele boillir  Rom Chev ANTS 1198
( 1163-70; MS: s.xiii2 )  Dunc veissiez ces verms eissir E od le venim ors buillir  S Edw barking 3224
( MS: s.xiii-s.xiv )  Du quer lui fait Lungis buillir sanc par grant undoie  Lyric 84
to erupt
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  E vers l’occident est un grant mont ardant. Jamés ne est esteint, toz jors est boillant  Rom Chev ANTS 6796
also_fig.to well up
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  la matere, quant bout si est ravie amont au chief  A-N Med i 176
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  el queor li buillout grant duzur  Mir N-D 250.186
fig.to seethe
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  tant dis cum li quer bout par dedenz de ire  Ancren2 216.31

p.pr. as gerund

boiling
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2 )  Cel liquor [...] movez de un movor de coudre boilant sur cherbons  A-N Med ii 219

p.pr. as a.

boiling
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  Desboillir fait l’eve boillant  Lapid 41.333
( s.xiim; MS: s.xiiiin )  Elle fait la buillante ewe cesser de buillir  Lapid 100
( s.xiiim?; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  une pot pleine de ewe boillante  A-N Med ii 30
tres buillant
tresbuillant

p.p. as a.

boiled
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2 )  mettez i autant de bel mel boilli  A-N Med ii 273
cuir builli
cuir

sbst. inf.

1boiling
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  epistites [...] le boillir tolt a chaldere  Lapid 54.638
( c.1290; MS: s.xv1 )  tout deviser ne fait mye Le buler (M.E. thyllyng) ne le purgeler (M.E. clansing)  bibb MS (B) 100r
2boiling substance
( s.xiv1/3 )  donque pernez poule de mars e le coupez, e metez en cel boiller  Culinary Colls 868.31

See also:

enbuillir  esbuillir  parboiler1  parboiler2  rebuillir 
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