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Ebullition   Listen
noun
Ebullition  n.  
1.
A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.
2.
Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali. (Formerly written bullition)
3.
A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.





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"Ebullition" Quotes from Famous Books



... comprehending this ebullition. It was not what he had expected to elicit. No one laughed. His fleer was wide of ...
— 'way Down In Lonesome Cove - 1895 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)
... Judith and her partner came up. Judith presented the much talked of "lovely Ted" and perhaps a part of Jane's ebullition was attributable to the code shot out from Judith's ...
— Jane Allen: Junior • Edith Bancroft
... Buller, or Bouilloir, of Buchan: Buchan is the name of the district, and the Buller is a small creek, or gulf, into which the sea flows through an arch of the rock. We walked round it, and saw it black, at a great depth. It has its name from the violent ebullition of the water, when high winds or high tides drive it up the arch into the basin. Walking a little farther, I spied some boats, and told my companions that we would go into the Buller and examine it. There was no danger; all was ...
— Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 - The Works Of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., In Nine Volumes • Samuel Johnson
... the rocks looked far more rough, both at the torrent-like entrance and the narrow opening on their right, while even from the height at which they stood it was plain to see that the circular cove was in a violent state of ebullition. ...
— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn
... a slightly Hibernian brain by the recent ebullition of generosity on the part of the popular press, which insures its readers against holiday ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 • Various


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