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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English beel, bele, from Old English bȳle (“boil, carbuncle, bile”), from Proto-West Germanic *būlijā, from Proto-Germanic *būlijǭ (“swelling”), from *būlǭ (“swelling, bump, boil”). More at boil.
Noun
beal (plural beals)
- (dialectal or obsolete) A small inflammatory tumor; pustule.
Etymology 2
From Middle English belen, from bele (see above).
Verb
beal (third-person singular simple present beals, present participle bealing, simple past and past participle bealed)
- (dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Western Pennsylvania) To gather matter; swell; come to a head, as a pimple; fester; suppurate.
Etymology 3
From Middle English belien, from Old Norse belja (“to bellow, roar”).
Verb
beal (third-person singular simple present beals, present participle bealing, simple past and past participle bealed)
- (UK dialectal) To bellow, roar, or shout.
Anagrams
- -able, Abel, Able, Bale, Blea, Ebla, Elba, able, albe, bael, bale, blea
Northern Sami
Etymology
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Preposition
beal
- (with a number) half before (the hour)
Old French
Adjective
beal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular beale)
- Alternative form of biau