Wiktionary
n. An egg which has been cooked in the shell in boiling water. It can be hard-boiled or soft-boiled.
WordNet
n. egg cooked briefly in the shell in gently boiling water [syn: coddled egg]
Wikipedia
Boiled eggs are eggs (typically chicken eggs) cooked with their shells unbroken, usually by immersion in boiling water. Hard-boiled eggs are cooked so that the egg white and egg yolk both solidify, while for a soft-boiled egg the yolk, and sometimes the white, remain at least partially liquid.
A few different ways are used to make boiled eggs other than simply immersing them in boiling water. Boiled eggs can also be cooked below the boiling temperature, via coddling, or they can be steamed.
The egg timer was so-named due to its common usage in timing the boiling of eggs. Boiled eggs are a popular breakfast food in many countries around the world.
Usage examples of "boiled egg".
I laid out the timetable beside my soft-boiled egg and found a suitable train.
And then I'll bleedin' well go home and maybe I'll even have a hard-boiled egg.
It had been scooped neatly out of me like the yolk from a hard-boiled egg, leaving the rest of me bloodless and congealed and hollow.
Her insides had been scooped out of her as though she were a soft-boiled egg, and only her brittle outer shell remained.
After a time she sighed and went out into the rain, returning shortly with a hard-boiled egg.
Lloyd Stanhope popped up by512 Diana Gabaldonmy elbow, looking like a very animated boiled egg in his nightshirt, his polled head startlingly round and pale without his wig.
The only one who ever did dare address him was Milo Minderbinder, who approached the horseshoe-pitching pit with a hard-boiled egg his second week in the squadron and held it aloft for Major - de Coverley to see.
No doubt for a second or two the vision of that hard-boiled egg rose before him and he was conscious again of the resentment he had been feeling at Stinker's failure to keep a firm hand on the junior members of his flock, but the thought that Augustus Fink-Nottle was not to be his son-in-law drove the young cleric's shortcomings from his mind.
Bits of a boiled egg, cut with a knife which had been washed in boiling water, also acted like any other animal substance.
I picked up a hard-boiled egg and tossed it lightly between my hands.