(a) Of a liquid, a substance: to be heated to the boiling point, boil, seethe; of solid food: be boiled in a liquid; of a person: be immersed in a boiling substance; of a vessel: be heated until the contents boil, be filled with a boiling substance; ~ up, well up in boiling, bubble up; ppl. sethinge, extremely hot, boiling; sethinge hot; (b) to boil (a liquid), heat to the boiling point; also, boil (a pot); also, ppl. soden as adj.; (c) to boil (sth., a substance) in a liquid, make a decoction of (sth.) by boiling or seething; also fig.; ~ up, boil (sth.) until the liquid rises; -- also without obj.; (d) to prepare food by boiling or stewing; (e) to cook (food) by boiling or stewing; -- also without obj.; also fig.; also, boil (human flesh, a bodily part, substances) for use as food; ~ up; ppl. soden as adj.: boiled or stewed; also, as noun: boiled food [last quot.]; neshe soden, lightly or partially cooked; (f) ~ hard, to hard-boil (an egg); ~ neshe, soft-boil (an egg); half soden eiren, soft-boiled eggs; hard) soden eiren, eiren (hard) soden, eiren soden hard, hard-boiled eggs; (g) to boil (bones, a part of the body) until the flesh is removed; ~ awei flesh, ~ flesh from the bon, boil flesh from the bone; (h) to reduce (a liquid) by boiling, boil away, cook down by boiling; ~ awei (in); ~ to the halven-dele (thridde part, etc.), boil (sth.) down to one half (one third, etc.); ~ unto the half; ppl. soden as adj.: boiled down; (i) to torture (sb., the consecrated Host, a soul in Purgatory) by boiling; boil (sb.) to death; (j) to prepare or produce (sth.) by boiling; also, ppl. soden as adj.; (k) fig. of a person: to be tossed about in turbulent water; of a liquid: bubble or foam as if by boiling.

(a) To be very hot; (b) to fire (tile), burn (a mineral); ppl. soden, fired, baked; burned; (c) to cook with dry heat; cook (sth.) with dry heat, bake, roast; also fig.; half-soden, half-baked; (d) fig. to refine (sb. or sth.) by heat, purify; ~ oute.

Physiol. (a) Of the stomach: to carry on the process of digestion; of food in the stomach: be digested; (b) to digest (food); (c) to heat (blood in the body); transform (blood) by means of heat; also fig.