Ceil sb.

poet rare. [f. next.] = CEILING. (Cf. the earlier CYLL.)

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1840. Galt, Demon Dest., VII. 48.

	The awning clouds were as a cavern’s ceil
	Of vaulted gloom, o’er all the ravag’d earth.

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	And he looked as strange and as picturesque
	As the figures we see in an arabesque,
	Half hidden in flowers, all painted in fresque,
	In Gothic vaulted ceils.

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