Word Meanings - SEETHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pot for boiling things; a boiler. Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to SEETHER)

• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• BURNISH
  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• BOILED
  Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
• BOILARY
  See BOILERY
• SEETHER
  A pot for boiling things; a boiler. Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• BOILING
  Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena
• SHONE
  imp. & p. p. of Shine.
• BOIL
  a bubbling motion, from bulla bubble; akin to Gr. , Lith. bumbuls. 1. To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam , or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a
• BOILERY
  A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
• LITTLE
  place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
• BOILINGLY
  With boiling or ebullition. And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher. Byron.
• BOILER
  A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes. Note: The earliest steam boilers were
• DISHONESTY
  1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
• 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.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• IMBOIL
  See EMBOIL
• NATAL BOIL
  = Aleppo boil.
• ALEPPO BOIL; ALEPPO BUTTON; ALEPPO EVIL
  A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.
• PARBOIL
  through + bouillir to boil, L. bullire. The sense has been 1. To boil or cook thoroughly. B. Jonson. 2. To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.
• LANCASHIRE BOILER
  . A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.
• BISKARA BOIL; BISKARA BUTTON
  See BOIL
• POTBOILER
  A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living.