neal
English
Etymology
See anneal.
Verb
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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin *nīdālis, nīdālem, from nīdus + -ālis.
Pronunciation
Noun
neal m (plural neais)