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Broiling   /brˈɔɪlɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Broil  v. t.  (past & past part. broiled; pres. part. broiling)  
1.
To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.
2.
To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.


Broil  v. i.  To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat. "The planets and comets had been broiling in the sun."


noun
Broiling  n.  The act of causing anything to broil.


adjective
Broiling  adj.  Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun.





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"Broiling" Quotes from Famous Books



... cockswain he signed the men to thrust off. The boat shot out across the still water, and headed shorewards on a slant for the south corner of the headland. Urged on by their impatient passenger, the rowers bent to their oars with a will, despite the broiling heat of the sun in the dead calm air under the ...
— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet
... in devising unique tests of holiness and courage. They lived in holes in the ground or in dried up wells; they slept in thorn bushes or passed days and weeks without sleep; they courted the company of the wildest beasts and exposed their naked bodies to the broiling sun. Macarius became angry because an insect bit him and in penitence flung himself into a marsh where he lived for weeks. He was so badly stung by gnats and flies that his friends hardly knew him. Hilarion, at twenty years of age, was more like a spectre than a living man. ...
— A Short History of Monks and Monasteries • Alfred Wesley Wishart
... employed, being of course greatest where small pieces of meat are subjected to prolonged cooking. The chief loss in weight when meat is cooked is due to the driving off of water. When beef is cooked by pan broiling—that is, searing in a hot, greased pan, a common cooking process—no great loss of nutrition results, particularly if the fat and other substances adhering to the pan are utilized in the preparation of gravy. When beef is cooked by boiling, there is a loss of 3 ...
— Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife • Marion Mills Miller
... broiling evening in early June, very beautiful, but so hot that I dreaded the fatigue and all the adjuncts of the morrow's wedding, when I was to be a bridesmaid, and should see my poor little Dora again. I was alone, for Eustace was sleeping at Therford Vicarage, ...
— My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph • Charlotte M. Yonge
... toil (and one of them very wet after swimming ashore), found their Master standing on the bank of the lake waiting for them. But it seems that he must have been busy in their behalf while he was waiting; for there was a bright fire of coals burning on the shore, and a goodly fish broiling thereon, and bread to eat with it. And when the Master had asked them about their fishing, he said, "Come, now, and get your breakfast." So they sat down around the fire, and with his own hands he served them with the bread ...
— Fisherman's Luck • Henry van Dyke


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