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▪ I. † neal, a. Obs.
In 6 neall, 7 neale(d).
[repr. OE. néol, níol, var. neowol, niwol deep, profound.]
Of water: Deep. Also neal(ed) to (see quots.).
1574W. Bourne Regiment for Sea xxii. (1577) 61 Those be neall or deepe harde unto the sandes or daungers. 1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 30 Come to an Anchor vnder the Ley of the weather shore, the Ley shore, nealed too, looke to your stoppers. 1627― Seaman's Gram. ix. 44 If it be Nealed to, that is, deepe water close aboord the shore. 1644H. Manwayring Sea-Man's Dict., Neale-too. [Also in Phillips (1658) and Chambers Cycl. Supp. (1753).]
▪ II. neal, v. Obs. exc. dial.|niːl|
Also 6–7 nele, 7 neil(l)e, neale, 9 neeal, nale.
[Aphetic form of anneal v.]
1. trans. To fire or bake (earthenware, etc.), esp. so as to glaze it. = anneal v. 2. ? Obs.
1538[implied in nealed ppl. a.]. 1601Holland Pliny I. 425 The wine-vessels..must be nealed with pitch, presently vpon the rising of the dog-star. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 31 Divers..make the particles of clay, gilt, and coloured before they be neiled by the fire. 1683Pettus Fleta Min. i. (1686) 9 Plaster it all over the inside of the Furnace, let it dry well..that it may be neald. 1799G. Smith Laboratory I. 9 Blood stone, which has been nealed and beaten to a..powder.
b. fig. To burn. Also with into.
1673O. Walker Educ. 209 Yet are they not to be neglected, but to be neal'd into youth, that they may not through defect of them, miscarry in their age. 1829Hogg Shepherd's Cal. ii, Till that hard and cruel heart o' yours be nealed to an izle.
2. To temper, to soften or toughen (metal or glass), by the action of fire or heat, esp. by a process of heating and slow cooling. = anneal v. 4.
1558T. Phaer æneid vii. U iij b, Swordes and glaiues in furneis neale they tough. 1611Markham Countr. Content. i. x. (1668) 56 Strong wier.., being nealed and allaid in the fire, you may bend and bow at your pleasure. 1665Hooke Microgr. 42 By a leisurely heating and cooling, the parts are nealed into another posture. 1685Boyle Effects of Motion viii. 93 A Glass that seemed to have been well-baked or nealed (as they call it). 1745Phil. Trans. XLIII. 506 Those Drops or Lachrymæ of Glass, which, instead of being nealed, had been immediately quenched in Water. 1763W. Lewis Phil. Comm. Arts 5 The wire is softened and made pliable by nealing or heating it on live coals. 1881I. Wight Gloss., Neeal, to temper by fire. 1894S.E. Worc. Gloss., Nale, to anneal; to soften or toughen iron.
†3. intr. To undergo the process of annealing.
c1626Meverel Answ. Bacon Touching Metals B.'s Wks. 1857 III. 817 Reduction is chiefly effected by fire, wherein if they stand and nele, the imperfect metals vapour away. 1684Boyle Porousn. Anim. & Solid Bod. viii. 137 We laid this Glass..warily upon a few Quick-coals, and having suffered it to neal awhile [etc.]. |