A copper coin.
To sing.
To cry; groan; croak.
Of a person, to “croak”; talk.
To sing; utter with musical modulations.
To ache or tingle with cold, as the fingers.
To crack with heat or dryness, as wood.
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The Myrica Gale, a shrub growing in marshy places in northern Europe and Asia and in North America: more usually called sweet-gale, from its pleasant aromatic odor.
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A strong natural current of air; a wind; a breeze; more specifically, in nautical use, a wind between a stiff breeze and a storm or tempest: generally with some qualifying epithet: as, a gentle, moderate, brisk, fresh, stiff, strong, or hard gale.
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Figuratively, a state of noisy excitement, as of hilarity or of passion.
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By extension, an odor-laden current of air.
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A song.
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Speech; discourse.
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A periodical payment of rent, interest, duty, or custom; an instalment of money.
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The right of a free miner to have possession of a plot of land within the Forest of Dean and hundred of St. Briavels, in England, and to work the coal and iron thereunder.
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Gales are classified as moderate, fresh, strong, and whole gales. See Beaufort scale.
To sail away before the wind, or to outstrip another vessel in sailing: generally with away.