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a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

the flared opening of a tubular device

English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)

(nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.

the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells"

United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)

a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)

a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

the flared opening of a tubular device

the sound of a bell; "saved by the bell"

English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)

(nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.

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.

A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.

Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.

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.

The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.

To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.

To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.

To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.

To utter by bellowing.

To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.

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.

A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.

Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.

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.

The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.

To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.

To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.

To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.

To utter by bellowing.

To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.

A hollow metallic vessel, usually cup-shaped, and giving forth a clear, ringing sound when struck; anything in the form of a bell, as the corolla of a flower.

To put a bell on; as, to bell a cat.

A hollow vessel of metal with a tongue or clapper inside, which rings when moved: anything bell-shaped.

A hollow vessel of metal which rings when struck; anything shaped like a bell.

A hollow metallic instrument for giving forth a sound when struck.

A hollow body of metal, enlarged or expanded at the mouth, so compounded as to emit a clear, ringing sound when struck; anything in form of a bell.

To put on a bell.

To grow in the form of bells, as buds or flowers. To bear the bell, to be leader, in allusion to the bell-wether of a flock. To shake the bells, to give an alarm. To bear away the bell, to take the prize. To curse by bell, book, and candle, an excommunication accompanied by the tolling of a bell. To bell the cat, to encounter and cripple one of greatly superior force; from the fable of the mice resolving to put a bell on the cat. Passing bell, a bell rung when any one was dying, that the neighbours might pray for his soul.

A hollow body producing musical sounds when struck; anything expanding mouth outwards like a bell, as the cups of flowers.

To grow in the form of bells; to make a loud noise.

n. [Anglo-Saxon] A hollow metallic vessel which gives forth a clear, ringing sound on being struck;—any thing in the form of a bell, as the cup or calyx of a flower.

A vessel, or hollow body of cast metal, formed to make a noise by the act of some instrument striking against it; it is used for any thing in the form of a bell, as the cups of flowers.