neal
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
See anneal.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
neal (third-person singular simple present neals, present participle nealing, simple past and past participle nealed)
- (transitive) To temper by heat.
- (intransitive) To be tempered by heat.
- 1684, Robert Boyle, Essay on the Porousness of Solid Bodies:
- We laid this Glass […] warily upon a few Quick-coals, and having suffered it to neal awhile
ReferencesEdit
- “neal” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
AnagramsEdit
GalicianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin *nīdālis, nīdālem, from nīdus + -ālis.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
neal m (plural neais)
ReferencesEdit
- “neal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
YolaEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English nedle, from Old English nǣdl, from Proto-West Germanic *nāþlu.
NounEdit
neal
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 58