Boil"ing*ly, adv. With boiling or ebullition.
And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher.
Byron.
||Bois" d'arc" (&?;). [F., bow wood. So called because used for bows by the Western Indians.] (Bot.) The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca).
The bois d'arc seems to be the characteristic growth of the black prairies.
U. S. Census (1880).
||Bois" dur`ci" (&?;). [F., hardened wood.] A hard, highly polishable composition, made of fine sawdust from hard wood (as rosewood) mixed with blood, and pressed.
Boist (&?;), n. [OF. boiste, F. boîte, from the same root as E. box.] A box. [Obs.]
Bois"ter*ous (&?;), a. [OE. boistous; of uncertain origin; cf. W. bwyst wild, savage, wildness, ferocity, bwystus ferocious.] 1. Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful. [Obs.] "Boisterous sword." "Boisterous hand." Shak.
2. Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy.
The waters swell before a boisterous storm.
Shak.
The brute and boisterous force of violent men.
Milton.