[f. as prec. + -ING1.]

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  1.  The action of the verb CONGEAL: freezing, etc.

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1471.  Ripley, Comp. Alch., VI. in Ashm. (1652), 161. Of such Congelyng folys do clatter.

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1734.  trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist. (1827), VI. xv. 15. 237. The congealing of the blood.

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1761.  Watson, in Phil. Trans., LII. 163. He observed the same facts in relation to the congealing of mercury.

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  † 2.  concr. A thing that congeals, or is congealed; coagulum, rennet. Obs.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVIII. xi. (1495), 767. The congelynge of a lambe [L. congulum agni, i.e., ‘rennet’] wyth wyne heelyth bytynge of spynners.

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1591.  Percivall, Sp. Dict., Cuajo, the crudde or congealing, also a runnet for cheese, coagulum.

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