Now dial. Also 4–5 kylle, 5 kile, 7 keyll. [a. ON. kýli boil, abscess; prob. related to kúla ball, knob.] A sore, ulcer, boil.
(Wrongly rendered by Levins, through some confusion.)
c. 1340. Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 2995. Som, for envy, sal haf in þair lyms, Als kylles and felouns and apostyms.
14[?]. Rel. Ant., I. 53. A gude oyntment for kyles, woundes [etc.].
14[?]. MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 48 lf. 85 (Halliw.). Thai fare as dos a rotyn kile, That rotys and warkys sore.
1483. Cath. Angl., 202/2. A Kyle, vlcus, vlcerosus.
1570. Levins, Manip., 130. A Kyle, bilis.
1579. Langham, Gard. Health (1633), 314. To breake a botch, byle, or keyll, seethe the roots in water.
1876. Whitby Gloss., Kyles, boils on the flesh.
