Noun

(en noun)

An apparatus that generates heat (usually by burning fuel) and uses it to heat circulating water (or sometimes another liquid) in a closed system that is then used for space heating, swimming pool heating, or domestic hot water or industrial processes.

Less commonly , a hot water heater.

(approximate definition'') A fuel burning apparatus in which water is boiled to produce steam for space heating, power generation, or industrial processes.
(''more precisely'') An apparatus in which a heat source other than a hot liquid or steam (most commonly burning fuel, exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine or gas turbine, waste heat from a process, solar energy or electricity) is used to boil water (or ''rarely another liquid), under pressure to provide steam (or other gas) for use as a heat source in calorifiers, heat exchangers or heat emitters, or for use directly for humidification, in an industrial process, or to power steam turbines.

A kitchen vessel for steaming or boiling food.

(UK, informal) A tough old chicken only suitable for cooking by boiling.

Noun

(rare, informal) Boilerplate.

* 1994 May 4, Glenn Nicholas, " Re: Forms4 boilerplate accessible?", in comp.databases.oracle, Usenet :

While it appears the FRM40_TEXT table is the answer, saving a form with boiler text does not seem to insert into this table.

* 2003 December 7, Tom Potter, " Re: Why don't more people hate Bush?", in alt.politics.democrats and other newsgroups, Usenet :

Note that Stuart Grey makes the assertion: "I think rationally on all subjects.", and then proceeds to use the standard boiler tactics and phrases of the people WHO instigate conflict and war.

* 2007 , Jim Casey, " Re: NRA vs Bar Assoc over guns in cars", in tx.guns, Usenet :

Nearly every employer in my field has similar terms (they all come out of a legal boiler mill somewhere).

* 2009 March 30, "hughess7" (username), " Re: Mail merge to PDF", in microsoft.public.access, Usenet :

Just aligning all the paragraphs of 'boiler text' is tedious but trying to insert values in alignment is impossible!

Noun

(lb) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed.}}

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Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear .

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=18 citation , passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police

(lb) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.

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Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.

(lb) Extreme veneration or awe, as toward a supreme being or deity.

* Bible, (w)

I will put my fear in their hearts.

* Bible, (Psalms)

I will teach you the fear of the Lord.