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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An open fire in a fireplace.
  2. n. A fireplace.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Fire; flame; blaze.
  2. n. A household fire or fireplace.
  3. n. A favorite, particularly a male favorite, in a bad sense; a paramour.
  4. n. In a general sense, a person beloved; a friend.
  5. To wheedle; coax.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An open fireplace.
  2. n. A catamite.
  3. v. obsolete To cajole or coax; to wheedle.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Obs. or Scot. Flame; blaze; a fire; a fireplace.
  2. n. obsolete A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart; an engle.
  3. v. obsolete To cajole or coax; to wheedle. See engle.

Etymologies

  1. Origin unknown. (Wiktionary)
  2. Perhaps Scottish Gaelic aingeal, fire, light. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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