bell
Speech parts
1. bell - Noun
2. bell - Verb
3. Bell - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
A good bell is heard from far, a bad one still further.
The bell is loud because it is empty.
The bell rings loudest in your own home.