neal
English edit
Etymology edit
See anneal.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
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
References edit
- “neal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin *nīdālis, nīdālem, from nīdus + -ālis.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
neal m (plural neais)
References edit
- “neal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English nelde, metathesis of nedle, from Old English nǣdl, from Proto-West Germanic *nāþlu.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
neal
References edit
- 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