BOILING, in the culinary art, is a method of dressing meats by coction in hot water, intended to soften them, and dispose them for easier digestion.
BOILING is also a method of trying or assaying the goodness or badness of a colour or dye. The stuff is to be boiled in water with certain drugs, different according to the kind or quality of the colour, to try whether or not it will discharge, and give a tincture to the water.
BOILING to Death (caldariis decoquere), in the middle ages, a kind of punishment inflicted on thieves, false coiners, and some other criminals.