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Congeal  v. i.  To grow hard, stiff, or thick, from cold or other causes; to become solid; to freeze; to cease to flow; to run cold; to be chilled.
Synonyms: jell, set. "Lest zeal, now melted... Cool and congeal again to what it was."






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"Congeal" Quotes from Famous Books



... muscles, Congeal'd, alas! his chyle; No more in hostile tussles Will he excite his bile. Dry is the epidermis, A vein no longer bleeds— And the communis vermis ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various

... who had turned to walk away, stopped suddenly, and his great white eyebrows came together in his red face with a savage scowl. He laughed, and in that laugh his fury seemed to congeal into a ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke

... Tulley's achromatic microscope, and under highly magnifying powers, it has recently been discovered that the globules of the blood congeal into flat circular bodies, and arrange themselves in rows, one body being placed partly underneath another, and in like manner as a pile of similar coins, when thrown gently down, would be found to arrange themselves. This curious effect has been attributed to the vitality yet remaining in the ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, - Issue 372, Saturday, May 30, 1829 • Various

... FREEZE, TO. To congeal water or any fluid. Thus sea-water freezes at 28 deg. 5' Fah.; fresh water at 32 deg.; mercury at 39 deg. 5' below zero. All fluids change their degree of freezing in accordance with mixtures of alcohol or solutions ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... Phoebe and Phoebus too for Caesar came, And with Cyllenius, to fill the train, Alcides went, in all his acts the same. The trumpets sound, when from the Stygian shade Wild Discord raises her disorder'd head; From whose swoln eyes there ran a briny flood, And blood congeal'd otre all her visage stood; Her hideous rows of brazen teeth were furr'd, A filthy gore there issu'd from her tongue, With snaky locks her guarded head was hung; Rent and divided did her garb betray The image of the breast on which it lay; And brandisht flames her trembling hand obey. Thus ...
— The Satyricon • Petronius Arbiter

... of this punishment consists not only in the number of lashes, but in the peculiar manner in which they are inflicted; as, after the unfortunate wretch has received the first part of his sentence alongside of one ship, the blood is allowed to congeal, and the wounds partially to close, during the interval which takes place previously to his arrival alongside of the next, when the cat again subjects him to renewed and increased torture. During the latter part of the punishment, the ...
— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat

... of bitter coldness. As the breath left his nostrils, he could almost see it congeal and fall to the ground, a filmy sheet of ice. The heads of the huskies were clouded with smoke, so that they seemed to be on fire as they panted ...
— Murder Point - A Tale of Keewatin • Coningsby Dawson

... if Kesenah, adj. cold Kagooh, shall not Keche, adj. great Kechauze, n. your nose Ketegaweneneh, n. a husbandman Keskejewahyaun, n. a waist-coat Kewadenoong, n. north Kekewaown, n. a flag Kagate, adv. truly, verily Koondun, v. swallow it Kahmahsheh, adv. not yet Kahskahdin, v. to congeal, to freeze Kagooween, you shall not, or thou shall not Kagebahdezid, n. a fool Kenebood, pt. died Kategang, v. to sow or plant Keskahkezhegang, v. to reap Kahgega, adj. eternal Kazhedin, adv. immediately Keahgoonwatum, v. he ...
— Sketch of Grammar of the Chippeway Languages - To Which is Added a Vocabulary of some of the Most Common Words • John Summerfield

... perpetual, what is only frequent, or as constant, what is really casual. If it be true that Lough Ness never freezes, it is either sheltered by its high banks from the cold blasts, and exposed only to those winds which have more power to agitate than congeal; or it is kept in perpetual motion by the rush of streams from the rocks that inclose it. Its profundity though it should be such as is represented can have little part in this exemption; for though deep wells are not frozen, because their water is ...
— A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland • Samuel Johnson

... portraits on the walls and an ivory crucifix. This glance at the bedroom served to increase her uneasiness. Moving toward a table that stood near the centre of the room she turned, and regarding Pats with the lofty, far-away air which never failed to congeal ...
— The Pines of Lory • John Ames Mitchell

... household. We shrug our shoulders and are not a whit the worse for them. Thus, for want of grieving, and caring, and fretting, we are happy enough to grow—come, I will use an epithet to please you—hard-hearted! We congeal into philosophy; and are we not then wise in adopting this life of isolation ...
— Godolphin, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... effects of the idea of progress accounts for most of the resentment against it in the realm of theology, and for the desperate endeavours which perennially are made to congeal the Christian movement at some one stage and to call that stage final. Stability, however, can never be achieved by resort to such reactionary dogmatism. What one obtains by that method is not stability but stagnation, and the two, though ...
— Christianity and Progress • Harry Emerson Fosdick

... his suspicions beginning to congeal into a cold dread that the revelation which he had been unconfessedly avoiding for weeks past was about ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... next was he who for a shadow burn'd, Which the deceitful watery glass return'd; Enamour'd of himself, in sad decay— Amid abundance, poor—he look'd his life away; And now transform'd through passion's baneful power, He o'er the margin hangs, a drooping flower; While, by her hopeless love congeal'd to stone, His mistress seems to look in silence on; Then he that loved, by too severe a fate, The cruel maid who met his love with hate, Pass'd by; with many more who met their doom By female pride, and fill'd an early tomb.— ...
— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch



Words linked to "Congeal" :   jell, set, solidify, congelation



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