Crossword-Solution: GEEL 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The _geel slang_, anglice "yellow-snake," is a variety of cobra, and takes first rank among the deadliest reptiles of South Africa.

Her husband said, "Now I perceive that the daughter of Sháh El-Karmánee is displeased with my poverty." She answered, "I did not withdraw from fear of poverty, but on account of the weakness of thy faith, seeing how thou layest by a cake of bread for the morrow."[265] One of my friends in Cairo, Abu-l-Ḳásim of Geelán, mentioned in a former note, entertained me with a long relation of the mortifications and other means which he employed to attain the rank of a welee.

Here standing, he saw approaching, below, a troop of horsemen, who paused at the foot of the hill, when their chief, who was foremost, called out to him by name, "O Abu-l-Ḳásim! O Geelánee! Come down and drink!"--but, persuaded by this that he was Iblees with a troop of his sons, the evil Genii, he withstood the temptation, and remained stationary until the deceiver with his attendants had passed on, and were out of sight.

All the ingredients he carried with him; for whenever a "geel coppel," (_Naja haje_), or a "spuugh-slang," (_Naja nigra_), or the "puff-adder," (_Vipera arretans_), or the horned viper, (_Cerastes caudalis_,)-- whenever any of these was killed on the route--and many were--Swartboy took care to open the poison-gland, situated behind their fangs, and take therefrom the drop of venom, which he carefully preserved in a small phial.

Arab and Berber, especially if the latter are of the Beni M'Geel, do not usually travel together." "You observed the men?" "Not narrowly, my Major.