Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To congeal.
- Of or pertaining to the earth; terrestrial.
- Produced by the attraction of the earth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Obs. or Scot. To congeal.
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- verb To
congeal .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Go n-éirí an t-ádh agus an geal libh go deo, anois agus sna laethanta seo chugainn.
between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2005
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You need to find someone with whom you geal, so it ain't surreal.
whitehelmet Diary Entry whitehelmet 2004
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Till you come back again to us a stor gra geal mo chroi
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The Gaelic League, in great force, sang “Fainne geal an lae” between the acts, and “The Wearing of the Green” in Irish….
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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The Gaelic League, in great force, sang “Fainne geal an lae” between the acts, and “The Wearing of the Green” in Irish….
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Ach thusa bhi 'm ghraidh's lamh geal thardam gu fial!
The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908
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For example, there is Loch Borlan, close to the well-known little inn of Alt-na-geal-gach in Sutherland.
Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878
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It will take time, perhaps a great geal of time, but it will change because those in power possess only power - they have no intelligence or foresight - and they will be replaced by people with larger brains.
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The Obama administration is relying on sections of The Patriot Act to bolster its geal reasoning.
Marc Cooper 2009
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The Gaelic League, in great force, sang “Fainne geal an lae” between the acts, and “The Wearing of the Green” in Irish … The play hits so impartially all round that no one is really offended.’
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
carolinacc commented on the word geal
trans. and intr. To stiffen as with cold, to congeal.
March 25, 2009