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▪ I. geal, a. rare.|ˈdʒiːəl|
[badly f. Gr. γῆ earth + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to the earth regarded as a planet. geal tides: tides (on the moon) due to the earth's attraction.
1883Winchell World-Life ii. iii. §2 (1889) 384 The geal tide on the moon will be about eighty times higher than the lunar tide on the earth.
▪ II. geal, v. Obs. exc. dial.|dʒiːl|
In 5 gell(yn.
[a. F. gele-r:—L. gelāre to freeze. Cf. congeal.]
trans. and intr. To stiffen as with cold, to congeal.
The examples are often difficult to separate from those of geal, gell v. (with ‘hard’ g), to tingle as with cold.
c1440Promp. Parv. 190/1 Gellyn, or congellyn (to-gedyr), gelat, congelat. 1608Tourneur Rev. Trag. v. i, Wks. 1878 II. 133 We found the Duke my father gealde in bloud. 1633H. A. Partheneia Sacra 190 It [the mother-pearl] forms litle graines or seeds within it, which cleaue to its sides, then grow hard, and geale, as it were. 1804W. Tarras Poems 19 Wer't no for houp..Our very hearts wou'd geal.
Hence ˈgealing ppl. a.
1604T. Wright Passions v. §4. 229 Gealing frostes cause springs and welles..in the depth of winter to smoke with heate. |