Broil
Broil ({not transcribed}) , noun
[French brouiller to disorder, from Late Latin brogilus, broilus, brolium, thicket, wood, park; of uncertain origin; compare Welsh brog a swelling out, Old High German prōil marsh, German bruhl, Middle High German brogen to rise. The meaning tumult, confusion, comes apparently from tangled undergrowth, thicket, and this possibly from the meaning to grow, rise, sprout.]
A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.
I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
Broil ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Old English broilen, Old French bruillir, from bruir to broil, burn; of German origin; compare Middle High German bruejen, German bruhen, to scald, akin to English brood.]
1.
To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.
2.
To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.
Broil , intransitive verb
To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.
The planets and comets had been broiling in the sun.