beal English
Noun
( en noun)
(dialectal, or, obsolete) A small inflammatory tumor; pustule.
Verb
( en verb)
(dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) To gather matter; swell; come to a head, as a pimple; fester; suppurate.
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beag English
Noun
( en noun)
(historical) A ring.
* 1878 , Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain), The Numismatic chronicle and journal of the Numismatic Society :
- It was a mark of nobility among the German races — by some considered the origin of our coronets — and had even about it a quasi-religious character in memory of the "holy beag " (holy ring), the oath upon which was tantamount to the oath upon Thorr's hammer.
* 1970 , William A. Chaney, The cult of kingship in Anglo-Saxon England :
- [...] and the description of that monarch in his anonymous Vita'' as ''coronatus lauro'' probably indicates a beag which was lighter than the formal ''diadema .
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