gealadj.
/ˈdʒiːəl/ rare.
Of or pertaining to the earth regarded as a planet. geal tides n. tides (on the moon) due to the earth's attraction.
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [noun] > tide
geal tides1883
1883 A. Winchell World-life (1889) ii. iii. §2. 384 The geal tide on the moon will be about eighty times higher than the lunar tide on the earth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
gealv.
/dʒiːl/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
transitive and intransitive. 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.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > be cold [verb (intransitive)] > become cold > freeze
it freezes971
congealc1400
gealc1440
frigitate1635
conglaciate1646
take1781
catch1879
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 190/1 Gellyn, or congellyn (to-gedyr), gelat, congelat.
1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. v. sig. I We found the Duke my father gealde in bloud.
1633 H. Hawkins 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.
1804 W. Tarras Poems 19 Wer't no for houp..Our very hearts wou'd geal.
Derivatives
ˈgealing adj.
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1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. §4. 229 Gealing frostes cause springs and welles..in the depth of winter to smoke with heate.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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