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▪ I. † beal, n.1 Obs. or dial.
[Apparently a variant of boil n., which occurs in ME. in the various forms, byle, byil, bule, buyl, buile, bile, biel, bele, beel, the latter apparently the precursor of the 17th c. spelling beal (if this does not rather represent the ON. equivalent beyla). For the further history, see boil.]
A pustule or boil.
c1400Wyclif Lev. xiii. 18 (MS. D), The skynne in the whiche a beel [v. r. bocche] is growun. 1632Sherwood, A beale, pustule. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) i. s.v., Full of beals, pustulosus.
▪ II. † beal(e, n.2
Obs. var. peel, baker's shovel.
1598Florio, Impalare, to put bread into an ouen with a beale. [So s.v. Impalato.]
▪ III. ‖ beal, n.3|beːl, bjeːl|
[Gaelic béul mouth.]
The mouth of a (highland) river or valley. (Used for the sake of local colouring.)
1818Scott Leg. Montrose III. 330 (Jam.) The different passes, precipices, corries, and beals, through which he said the road lay to Inverary.
▪ IV. † beal, v. Obs. or dial.
[f. beal n.1]
intr. To suppurate, to ‘gather.’ Still in regular use in Scotland.
1611Cotgr., Bouër, to beale, to matter. 1717Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 244 The remarkable instance of the adulterer, to whom Mr. Peebles said, ‘This shall beal out of your breast!’ Mod. Sc. Take care the sore does not beal. |