Vocabulary Word
Word: congeal
Definition: freeze; coagulate
Definition: freeze; coagulate
Sentences Containing 'congeal'
The priest, perplexed and amazed, made haste to examine the wound with both hands, and found that the blade had passed, not through Basilio's flesh and ribs, but through a hollow iron tube full of blood, which he had adroitly fixed at the place, the blood, as was afterwards ascertained, having been so prepared as not to congeal.
So, with his ivory leg inserted into its accustomed hole, and with one hand firmly grasping a shroud, Ahab for hours and hours would stand gazing dead to windward, while an occasional squall of sleet or snow would all but congeal his very eyelashes together.
More Vocab Words
::: orifice - mouthlike opening; small opening (esp. to a cavern or passage of the body); CF. mouth::: innate - inborn
::: monochrome - painting in only one color; ADJ.
::: despise - look on with scorn; regard as worthless or distasteful; ADJ. despicable: contemptible
::: voluptuous - sensual; of or giving sensual pleasure; indulging in sensual pleasures; Ex. voluptuous lines; Ex. voluptuous life of the Romans; N. voluptuary: voluptuous person
::: sober - serious; solemn; not drunken; abstemious or temperate; V: make or become sober
::: visceral - felt in one's inner organs; N. viscera: internal body organs; CF. eviscerate
::: caption - title; chapter heading; text under illustration
::: mannered - affected; not natural; Ex. mannered way of speech
::: hostage - person who is kept as a prisoner by an enemy so that the other side will do what the enemy demands
