SIMMER

simmer. Simmer, v.i. to boil very gently or slowly

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Sim″mer (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Simmered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Simmering.] [[Prov. E. also simper; — an onomatopoetic word.]] To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil. I simmer as liquor doth on the fire before it beginneth to boil. Palsgrave.