noun

• (US) A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)
  "a down-home boil at the town hall"
• (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
• (archaic) A bubbling.
  "He swam to the place where Mary disappeared but there was neither boil nor gurgle on the water, nor even a bell of departing breath, to mark the place where his beloved had sunk."

verb

• (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
  "Boil some water in a pan."
• (ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.
  "Boil the eggs for three minutes."
• (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
  "Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius."
• (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
  "'I'll boil the kettle,' he said."