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Webster 1913 Edition

Beal

Beal

(bēl)
,
Noun.
[See
Boil
a tumor.]
(Med.)
A small inflammatory tumor; a pustule.
[Prov. Eng.]

Beal

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bealed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Bealing
.]
To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple.
[Prov. Eng.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Beal

BEAL

,
Noun.
[See Boil] A pimple; a whelk; a small inflammatory tumor, a pustule.

BEAL

v.i. To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple.

Definition 2024

Beal

Beal

See also: beal and béal

English

Alternative forms

  • Beall

Proper noun

Beal

  1. A surname​.

beal

beal

See also: Beal and béal

English

Noun

beal ‎(plural beals)

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) A small inflammatory tumor; pustule.

Verb

beal ‎(third-person singular simple present beals, present participle bealing, simple past and past participle bealed)

  1. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To gather matter; swell; come to a head, as a pimple; fester; suppurate.

Old French

Adjective

beal m ‎(oblique and nominative feminine singular beale)

  1. Alternative form of biau

Etymology

From Middle English beel, bele, from Old English bȳle, bȳle ‎(“boil, carbuncle, bile”), from Proto-Germanic *būlijǭ ‎(“swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- ‎(“to swell, be strong or numerous”). Cognate with German Beule ‎(“boil”). More at boil.

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