neal

See also: Neal and néal

English

Etymology

See anneal.

Verb

neal (third-person singular simple present neals, present participle nealing, simple past and past participle nealed)

1. (transitive) To temper by heat.
2. (intransitive) To be tempered by heat.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for neal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• ELAN, Lane, Lean, Lena, Nale, elan, enal, lane, lean, nale, élan

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Galician

Alternative forms

• nial, niallo

Etymology

From Latin *nīdālis, nīdālem, from nīdus +‎ -ālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /niˈal/, IPA^(key): /neˈal/

Noun

neal m (plural neais)

1. nest

References

• “neal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.