Simmering

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Simmer \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.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           I simmer as liquor doth on the fire before it beginneth
           to boil.                                 --Palsgrave.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  simmering
       n : cooking in a boiling liquid [syn: {boiling}, {stewing}]