vbl. sb. and ppl. a. Obs. exc. dial. [f. BEAL v. + -ING.]
1. vbl. sb. Suppuration; a ‘gathering’; a boil.
a. 1605. Montgomerie, Poems (1821), 215. Go to—what rek? And gar the bealing brek.
1611. Cotgr., Hypopie, bealing, or matter growing, or gathering in a crushed eye.
1703. Thoresby, Let., Beiling, matter mix’d with blood running out of a sore.
Mod. Sc. To poultice a bealing.
2. ppl. a. Suppurating, ‘gathering.’
Mod. Sc. To have a bealing hand lanced.
