To gather matter; swell and come to a head, as a pimple; fester; suppurate.
noun A sweet Australian drink made by steeping honey-bearing flowers in water. Also called bool and bull.
noun A mouth; an opening, as between hills; a narrow pass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Med.), Prov. Eng. A small inflammatory tumor; a pustule.
intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple.
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noun A small inflammatory tumor; pustule.
verb dialectal To gather matter; swell; come to a head, as a pimple; fester; suppurate.
Etymologies
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From Middle English beel, bele, from Old English bȳle, bȳle ("boil, carbuncle, bile"), from Proto-Germanic *būlijōn (“swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhōw- (“to swell, be strong or numerous”). Cognate with German Beule ("boil"). More at boil.
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In his 1889 classic The Useful Native Plants of Australia, J. H. Maiden describes a drink known as beal or bool, prepared in tarnuks the large wooden bowls seen in every camp’ by steeping the flowers of banksia or ironwood trees in water.
In his 1889 classic The Useful Native Plants of Australia, J. H. Maiden describes a drink known as beal or bool, prepared in tarnuks the large wooden bowls seen in every camp’ by steeping the flowers of banksia or ironwood trees in water.
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A set o tarpaulins, tattered and split, suddenly sounded a rippling beal overhead, and a few windblown drops of rain spattered down marked the aged concrete walkway on which they stood.
My mother-in-law, born in West Virginia in 1935, was told by her mother that the reason for her hearing loss was that she had a "bealed ear." This evidently was a term used in Appalachia at that time to indicate the suppurating result of a middle ear infection with ruptured eardrum.
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My mother-in-law, born in West Virginia in 1935, was told by her mother that the reason for her hearing loss was that she had a "bealed ear." This evidently was a term used in Appalachia at that time to indicate the suppurating result of a middle ear infection with ruptured eardrum.
January 9, 2010