1. (a.) Pertaining to ice or to its action; slow moving; as a glacial pace\; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.

2. (a.) Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids.

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