(n.) A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.
(n.) A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.
(n.) Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.
(n.) That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding
also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
(n.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time
or the time so designated.
(v. t.) To put a bell upon
as, to bell the cat.
(v. t.) To make bell-mouthed
as, to bell a tube.
(v. i.) To develop bells or corollas
to take the form of a bell
to blossom
as, hops bell.
(v. t.) To utter by bellowing.
(v. i.) To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time
to make a bellowing sound
to roar.
bell animalcule
An infusorian of the family Vorticellidae, common in fresh-water ponds.
bell bearer
A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.
bell crank
A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.
bell jar
A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes
as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view.
bell metal
A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin