beal
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /biːl/
- Rhymes: -iːl
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
beal (plural beals)
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English belen, from bele (see above).
Verb edit
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 edit
From Middle English belien, from Old Norse belja (“to bellow, roar”).
Verb edit
beal (third-person singular simple present beals, present participle bealing, simple past and past participle bealed)
Anagrams edit
Northern Sami edit
Etymology edit
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Preposition edit
beal
- (with a number) half before (the hour)
Old French edit
Adjective edit
beal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular beale)
- Alternative form of biau