ceil

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He piled them together in the centre of his ceil, and then hastened to barricade the second door he had attempted to force.

From Frederick the Great and His Family by Coleman, Chapman, Mrs.

Cain, a man's name. call, to name. ceil, to line the top of caul, a kind of net-work. seal, a sea animal.

From McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book by McGuffey, William Holmes

In the 3rd pers. sing. aspiration may be employed, e.g. n� ceil, “he does not hide,” n� cheil, “he does not hide it.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Dame, v�istes unkes hume nul de desuz ceil Tant ben s�ist esp�e no la corone el chef!

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

The primitive stone-roofed oratory is supposed to have been a hermit's ceil.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg