ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
† 1. Set on fire. Obs.
a. 1000. Cædmon, Gen., 2922. Ad stód onæled.
† 2. Fired, or baken, as earthenware; passing into the sense of ‘glazed.’ Obs.
1382. Wyclif, Is. xvi. 7. Vp on the walles of anelid [1388 bakun] tyil.
1519. Horman, Vulgaria, 24 b. A new erthen potte that is not glassed or hanelydde.
3. Enamelled, having colors burnt in, ‘stained’ as glass. arch.
1552. Ch. Goods Berksh., 14. A crosse of wood, couered wt annyled plate.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), II. 596. Bricks or small tiles enealed with sundry colours.
1622. Peacham, Gentl. Exerc., I. xxvii. 94. The old earth, that hath been scraped of the annealed work.
1633. G. Herbert, Love-joy, in Temple, 109. I saw a vine drop grapes with J and C anneal’d on every bunch.
1795. Southey, Joan of Arc, IV. 84. Conspicuous he In arms with azure and with gold anneal’d.
4. Toughened or tempered after fusion. Also fig.
1822. Imison, Sc. & Art, I. 391. Annealed copper wire is the best.
1831. E. Irving, Exp. Rev., I. 95. I am not a hardened and annealed infidel.
a. 1865. J. Wylde, in Circ. Sc., I. 83/1. Annealed and unannealed glass.
