sethyng
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Noun edit
sethyng (plural seþinges)
- Boiling or heating; the process of warming, especially in liquid:
- Boiling for the purpose of heating or warming food.
- (rare) The reduction or reducing of a substance.
- A reduced liquid; an essence or extract of something.
- (rare) Breaking up; digesting.
- (rare) Comestibles heated by boiling.
- (rare) The temperature which water boils at.
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References edit
- “sẹ̄thing(e, ger.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-10.