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beal

/biːl/UK/biːl/

beal noun: a small inflammatory tumor; pustule.

Noun

beal (plural beals)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) A small inflammatory tumor; pustule.

Verb (1)

beal (third-person singular simple present beals, present participle bealing, simple past and past participle bealed)

  1. (Pennsylvania, Scotland, Western, dialectal) To gather matter; swell; come to a head, as a pimple; fester; suppurate.

Verb (2)

beal (third-person singular simple present beals, present participle bealing, simple past and past participle bealed)

  1. (UK, dialectal) To bellow, roar, or shout.

Proper noun capitalized: Beal

Beal

  1. A surname from Anglo-Norman.
    • Dr. Weber and her colleagues are the latest custodians of the Beal seed viability experiment: a multicentury attempt to figure out how long seeds can lie dormant in the soil without losing their ability to germinate.2021 April 21, Cara Giaimo, “One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2021
  2. A small village in Kyloe parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU0642).
  3. A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district (OS grid ref SE5325).
  4. An unincorporated community in Vincennes Township, Knox County, Indiana, United States.

beal meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

beal in Tamil

வியல்பூதி

beal in Urdu

بیال

beal in Malayalam

ബിയൽ

beal in Kannada

ಬಿಯಲ್

Forms of beal

Noun
pluralbeals
Verb
third-person singular presentbeals
present participlebealing
past participlebealed
pastbealed
Proper noun
alternative formBeall

Origin of beal

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.

From Middle English belen, from bele (see above).

From Middle English belien, from Old Norse belja (“to bellow, roar”).

Words formed from beal

Words that rhyme with beal

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Questions about beal

What does beal mean?
Beal means a small inflammatory tumor; pustule.
What is beal in Tamil?
Beal in Tamil is வியல்பூதி. See Beal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is beal?
Beal can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce beal?
Beal is pronounced /biːl/ (UK).
What is the plural of beal?
The plural of beal is beals.

Words near beal in the dictionary

  1. beaks off
  2. beaksedge
  3. beaksedges
  4. beaksful
  5. beaky
  6. beal
  7. Beal conjecture
  8. Beal's conjecture
  9. bealach
  10. bealachs
  11. Beale

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: beal (page history and authors); Beal (page history and authors); beal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); beal (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); beal (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); beal (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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