gale

  • 31GALE — n. f. T. de Médecine Maladie cutanée et contagieuse, caractérisée par une éruption de vésicules transparentes à leur sommet, qui se développent principalement au pli des articulations, et qui sont toujours accompagnées de démangeaison. Prendre,… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 32gale — n. 1) a heavy, raging, severe, strong; sudden gale 2) a gale blows itself out; rages * * * [geɪl] rages raging severe strong sudden gale a heavy a gale blows itself out …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 33gale — [16] Gale is a puzzling word. An isolated early example of what appears to be the word, in the phrase gale wind (‘Our life like smoke or chaff is carried away as with a gale wind’, Zachary Boyd, The Last Battle 1619), suggests that it may… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 34gale — [16] Gale is a puzzling word. An isolated early example of what appears to be the word, in the phrase gale wind (‘Our life like smoke or chaff is carried away as with a gale wind’, Zachary Boyd, The Last Battle 1619), suggests that it may… …

    Word origins

  • 35gale — gale1 /gayl/, n. 1. a very strong wind. 2. Meteorol. a wind of 32 63 mph (14 28 m/sec). 3. a noisy outburst: a gale of laughter filled the room. 4. Archaic. a gentle breeze. [1540 50; perh. < Scand; cf. Norw dial. geil uproar, unrest, boiling]&#8230; …

    Universalium

  • 36Gale — This interesting and ancient English surname is recorded in several forms including Gale, Gail, Geil, Geill, Gayle, Gails and no doubt others as well. It has at least three possible sources of origin. The first is from an early medieval English&#8230; …

    Surnames reference

  • 37gale — noun (C) 1 a very strong wind: The fence was blown down in the gale. | it is blowing a gale BrE (=it is very windy) 2 a gale/gales of laughter a sudden loud sound of laughter: Gales of laughter came from the next room …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 38GALÉ — s. m. T. de Botan. Genre de plan tes amentacées, dont les espèces les plus remarquables sont le Galé odorant, qui croît en Europe dans les endroits marécageux, et l Arbre à cire (Gale cerifera), de la Caroline, dont on retire une cire qui sert à&#8230; …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 39gale — noun /ɡeɪl/ a) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through 9 winds on the 12 step Beaufort scale. a gale of laughter b) An outburst, especially of laughter. Gale day …

    Wiktionary

  • 40galé — (ga lé) s. m. Terme de botanique. •   Nom vulgaire et spécifique du myrica galé, famille des amentacées, dit aussi galé odorant, myrte des marais, myrte bâtard, piment royal et piment aquatique, LEGOARANT …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré