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bullire [CL], ~iare 1 to boil (intr.). b to foam. c to swarm (fig.). d (pr. ppl.) frothy (fig.). bullantes, aquae cum exundant GlC B 221; cum Aetnaei montis incendia ‥ ~irent Aldh. VirgP 41; 716 igneum piceumque flumen ~iens et ardens Bonif. Ep. 10 p. 11; si aque ~ienti et calidissime aqua tepida ‥ addatur Adel. QN 34; 1189 pix ~iens super caput ejus effundatur (Ch. Ric. I) R. Howd. III 36; sufficit ut ‥ buliat quousque humiditas evaporet M. Scot Lumen 264; s1237 brodium calidum de callidariis ~ientibus Wykes 84; 1363 per aquam ~iantem existentem in quadam olla enea SelCCoron 39; 1478 pro factura j thrye pro aqua bullente Ac. Churchw. Bath (XXV) 78.  b cum bulliret brumalibus / undosus vortex fluctibus Carm. Aldh. I 105.  c qua ‥ forte cadaver / turpiter introrsum bulliret vermibus atris Aldh. VirgV 1400.  d afferat [viator] inde [ab India] ientes nugas et impudentissima mendacia Lucian Chester 59. 2 to boil (trans.): a food; b salt (v. et. 4 bullio a); c wool; d leather (v. et. corium); e criminals. a sal, piper, epar ‥ / sint contrita simul bullitaque D. Bec. 2655; decoctione herbarum ~itarum Gilb. I 18. 1.  b 1252 habuerunt salsam suam in villa regis del Wych’ et sal suum ~ire consueverunt Cl 148; 1316 si bondus domini ~iat [sc. sal] extra villam in aliquo marisco, dabit domino j modium salis Terr. Fleet 83.  c warenciavit et ~ivit in aluma lanam Rec. Leic. I 102.  d 1303 pro uno coffino de corio ~ito KR Ac 363/18 f. 11.  e 1308 R. H. post ultimas assisas convictus de falsa moneta ~itus fuit per judicium (JustIt) S. Jers. XVIII p. 255. 3 to melt (trans.). aurum bullitum bibit illic Crassus Garl. Tri. Eccl. 141. 4 (?) to undergo secondary fermentation. 1305 de ij doleis vini de prisa capta anno quarto postea bullatis et venditis: ‥ et memorandum quod justiciarius et alii boni homines de patria habuerunt vina veniencia in eadem navi que singula fere bulliarunt et plura eorum ‥ corrumpebantur MinAc W. Wales I 388; 1387 de quarto doleo vini rubei Vascon’ nichil, quia rem[anens] bulliat’ et nichil inde potuit habere MinAc 819/2 m. 6.

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