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1. The act of boiling up; sudden outburst; effervescence.
2. An outburst or an unrestrained expression, as of some emotion; such as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.
3. The act or process of boiling in which a liquid vaporizes rapidly, producing bubbles and turbulent movments.
4. A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.
5. Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any another process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali.
6. Formerly written as, bullition.
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