| 单词 | houseling-bell |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouseling-bell 2. With various words prefixed to describe its shape, material, etc., or define its use, as alarm bell n., bridle-bell, clock-bell, curfew-bell, dinner-bell, doorbell, handbell, marriage-bell, night-bell, sheep-bell, town-bell; and esp. in ecclesiastical use, as bearing-bell, houseling-bell, lich-bell, sacring-bell, sanctus-bell or saunce-bell; death-bell n. a bell tolled to announce a death., passing-bell n. = death-bell n.See also church bell n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > signal marking the time > [noun] > bell, gun, etc. undern-bella1400 bell1422 clock-bell1508 minute-gun1728 hour-bell1785 ghurry1816 society > faith > artefacts > furniture > bell > [noun] church belleOE wakerell1485 bearing-bell1508 houseling-bell1508 lich-bell1508 sacring-bell1508 sanctus-bell1508 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 217 Ane benefice, quha wald gyue sic ane beste, Bot gif it war to gyngill Iudas bellis? 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. c.iiijv Pardon Beades, Tanthonie belles, Tauthrie laces. 1552–3 Inv. Ch. Goods Staffords. (passim) Bearing-bell, clock-bell, hand-bell, houseling-bell, lyche-bell, sacring-bell, sanctus-bell, visiting-bell. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iv. 4 The Curfewe bell hath rung. View more context for this quotation a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 36 Thou a passing bell, 'Gainst their transgressions did so loudly knell. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xxi. 13 And all went merry as a marriage-bell. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 40 Every word fell on Butler's ear like the knell of a death-bell. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott iii, in Poems (new ed.) 13 The bridle-bells rang merrily. 1861 Romance Dull L. xlviii. 358 Listening to the idly busy sound of sheep-bells. 1863 H. W. Longfellow Falcon Federigo 110 A passing bell Tolled from the tower. < as lemmas |
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