Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A bubble in boiling.
  • To rise; boil up; bubble.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To roll; to spout; to boil up.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To roll; to spout; to boil up.

Etymologies

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Anglo-Saxon weallan; compare waelm, billow.

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  • Verb: To bubble up.

    January 26, 2009