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Boyle

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Irish.
  2. 2
    A surname from Irish.; Robert Boyle, Irish natural philosopher.
  3. 3
    A place name:; A town in County Roscommon, Ireland.
  4. 4
    A place name:; A village in Athabasca County, Alberta, Canada, named after John Robert Boyle.
  5. 5
    A place name:; An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Kansas, United States.
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  1. 6
    A place name:; A town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of boil. Early, Modern, alt-of, obsolete

    "... a boyle or impostume comen forthe & broken"

Verb
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of boil. Early, Modern, alt-of, obsolete

    "1610?, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist What makes the Divell so divelish, I would aske you, / Sathan, our common enemie, but his being / Perpetually about the fire, and boyling / Brimstone and Arsnike?"

Etymology

* As an Irish surname, Anglicised from Irish Ó Baoithghill, possibly a compound of baoth (“vain, foolish”) and geall (“pledge”). * As a Scottish surname of Norman origin, from Biéville in Normandy, which could be from the Germanic personal name Boia + the common placename suffix -ville.

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