Word Meanings - OVERBOIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.

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• OVERBOIL
  To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.
• DISCONTENT
  Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan.
• FOUNTAINLESS
  Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water. Barren desert, fountainless and dry. Milton.
• BYRONIC
  Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron. With despair and Byronic misanthropy. Thackeray
• DISCONTENTATION
  Discontent. Ascham.
• FOUNTAIN
  1. A spring of water issuing from the earth. 2. An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other
• DISCONTENTIVE
  Relating or tending to discontent. "Pride is ever discontentive." Feltham.
• THRONG
  crowd, to press; akin to OS. thringan, D. & G. dringen, OHG. dringan, Icel. þryngva, þröngva, Goth. þriehan, D. & G. drang a throng, press, Icel. þröng a throng, Lith. trenkti to jolt, tranksmas a tumult. Cf. 1. A multitude of persons or
• DISCONTENTING
  1. Discontented. Shak. 2. Causing discontent; dissatisfying. Milton.
• DISCONTENTED
  Dissatisfied; uneasy in mind; malcontent. And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him. 1 Sam. xxii. 2. -- Dis`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`con*tent"ed*ness, n.
• DISCONTENTMENT
  The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude. Bacon.
• THRONGLY
  In throngs or crowds.
• DISCONTENTFUL
  Full of discontent.
• UNDULY
  In an undue manner.
• INTHRONG
  To throng or collect together. Fairfax.