emboil

English

Etymology

em- +‎ boil

Verb

emboil (third-person singular simple present emboils, present participle emboiling, simple past and past participle emboiled)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To boil with anger; to effervesce.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     quench thy hot emboiling Wrath

2. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Emboyled, grieued, brent.

References

• “emboil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• -mobile, Mobile, bemoil, emboli, mobile