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S coingeis leam a ghradh seach fhuath Air do ghuidh-se, &c Arm cha deargadh air an thear, Ach a chlaidheamh run-geal fein.

—Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses

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To congeal. [Obsolete or provincial.] It forms little grains or seeds within it, which cleave to its sides, then grow hard, and geal, as it were. Partheneia Sacra (1633), p. 190. We found the duke my father gealde in blood. C. Tourneur, Revenger's Tragedy, sig. I, 1.
Of or pertaining to the earth; terrestrial.
Produced by the attraction of the earth. [Rare in both uses.] The geal tide on the moon will be about eighty times higher than the lunar tide on the earth, in consequence of the earth's superior mass. Winchell, World-Life, p. 384.

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The Obama administration is relying on sections of The Patriot Act to bolster its geal reasoning. — Marc Cooper
S coingeis leam a ghradh seach fhuath Air do ghuidh-se, &c Arm cha deargadh air an thear, Ach a chlaidheamh run-geal fein. — Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses
'S geal a deud o 'n ceutaich' gàire, — The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad.
Ach thusa bhi 'm ghraidh's lamh geal thardam gu fial! — The Wind Bloweth
Ach a chlaidheamh run-geal fein. — Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses

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from Old French geler, French geler = Provencal gelar = Spanish helar = Portuguese gelar = Italian gelare, from Latin gelare, freeze: see gelid, congeal.
from Greek γαῑα, γη̄, the earth, + English -al.

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