Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To gather matter; swell and come to a head, as a pimple; fester; suppurate.
- noun A mouth; an opening, as between hills; a narrow pass.
- noun A sweet Australian drink made by steeping honey-bearing flowers in water. Also called
bool and bull. - noun A small inflammatory tumor; a pustule.
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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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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Examples
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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.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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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.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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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.
Delta Search Shatner, William 1997
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And while the feast was fresh in peoples memory, they affected to speak of the cailleach beal-tine as dead.
Chapter 62. The Fire-Festivals of Europe. § 4. The Beltane Fires 1922
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There was one particular piece which whoever got was called cailleach beal-tine-i. e., the Beltane carline, a term of great reproach.
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There was one particular piece which whoever got was called cailleach beal-tinei. e., the Beltane carline, a term of great reproach.
Chapter 62. The Fire-Festivals of Europe. § 4. The Beltane Fires 1922
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There was one particular piece which whoever got was called _cailleach beal-tine_ -- _i. e., _ the Beltane _carline, _ a term of great reproach.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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Years of civil war were brought to an end in 2005 with the signing of a peace beal between the two sides.
euronews 2010
artschultz commented on the word beal
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