belln.¹

Brit.

/bɛl/, U.S.

/bɛl/

Forms: Old English–1600s belle, (Middle English bill), Middle English–1600s bel, 1500s– bell.

Etymology: A common Low German word: Old English belle weak feminine = Middle Dutch and Middle Low German belle , Dutch bel (in Icelandic bjalla from Old English), not occurring in other Germanic languages; perhaps from same root as bell v.⁴ to make a loud noise, roar. The history of the transferred sense 4 is not quite certain.

I. Properly.

1. A hollow body of cast metal, formed to ring, or emit a clear musical sound, by the sonorous vibration of its entire circumference, when struck by a clapper, hammer, or other appliance. The typical form, found in all large bells (and indicated by the expression bell-shaped), is that of an inverted deep cup with a recurving brim, which is struck by a ‘clapper’ or ‘tongue,’ usually suspended from the centre of the interior.Other forms, used only in small bells, are a section of a hollow sphere, struck by a hammer impelled by a spring as in the bell of a house-clock, a table bell, etc., and a hollow sphere containing an unattached or freely suspended solid metal ball which answers the purpose of the tongue.Bells of the regular form vary greatly in size and weight.

a. The larger kinds are used for giving signals of various import (time, danger, etc.) to the inhabitants of a town or district, and especially in connection with public worship (cf. chime n.¹); the smaller kinds are used for similar purposes in a house (e.g. doorbell, dinner-bell, electric-bell).

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun]

bella1000

sonnettec1400

clock1483

tan-tan1653

tintinnabule1834

a1000 Chart. Leofric in Cod. Dipl. IV. 275 He hæfð ðiderynn gedon..vii. uphangene bella.

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 215 Boc oðer belle, calch oðer messe-ref.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 509 Me rong bellen, & vaste the ropes drou.

c1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 2285 Quod the emperour, ‘By Goddis belle, Of that cas thou most me telle.’

?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iii. sig. Diiij In bedes and in belles, not vsed of the turkes.

1606 Returne from Pernassus ii. vi. sig. D3^v Then go to his meate when the Bell rings.

1692 S. Patrick Answer to Touchstone of Reformed Gospel 72 A man..to whom the Bell clinks just as he thinks.

1782 W. Cowper Verses by A. Selkirk iv The sound of the church-going bell.

a1815 in G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 438 He put out his hand to pull the bell.

1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida I. x. 108 He's running..to answer the bell.

b. Small bells are frequently used for decoration, e.g. on a horse's trappings, a falcon's leg, the cap of a fool or jester, etc.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > small bell

bellc1175

cocklebell1378

crier1467

tantony1567

jingle1615

campanel1653

ting-tang1681

tinkler1767

crotal1790

grelot1854

pellet bell1907

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 950 Tatt iudisskenn preost wass..Bihenngedd all wiþþ belless.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Judges viii. 21 The ournementis, and billis [a1425 bellis] with the whiche the neckis of kyngis chamels ben wonyd to be anourned.

1486 Bk. St. Albans D iij The bellis that yowre hawke shall wheer, looke..that thay be not to heuy.

1611 Bible (King James) Zech. xiv. 20 Vpon the bels of the horses, Holines Vnto the Lord.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iii. 73 As the Oxe hath his bow..and the Falcon her bels .

a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) I. iii. ix. 129 I will not have a dog with a bell.

1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud vi. vii, in Maud & Other Poems 28 Often a man's own angry pride Is cap and bells for a fool.

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.

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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.iiij^v 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.

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.

3. spec.

a. A bell rung to tell the hours; the bell of a clock; whence the obsolete phrases of the bell, on the bell, at the bell = o'clock.

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the world > time > reckoning of time > [adverb] > o'clock

of the clock1384

at (the) clockc1405

o'clock1419

of the bell1422

clock1629

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

1422 MS. at Hatfield Ho. In the morowe tide bitwene vj and vij of the belle died Kyng Charles.

c1447 Eng. Chron. App. 117 Appon iij on the belle at aftrenone.

1448 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) 61 On tuysday..at iij. atte belle afternone.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxxxii. 322 This batayle endured fro ix. of y^e bell, tyll it was past hye none.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. ii. 45 The clocke hath strucken twelue vpon the bell .

1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 5 The Bell strikes One.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair liv. 482 As the shrill-toned bell of the black marble study clock began to chime nine.

b. Nautical. The bell which is struck on ship-board, every half hour, to indicate by the number of strokes the number of half-hours of the watch which have elapsed; a period of half-an-hour thus indicated. (See quots.).

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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > signal marking the time > [noun] > bell, gun, etc. > ship's bell

bell1836

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. ix. 131 It struck seven bells, and he accompanied Mr. Jolliffe on deck.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast iv. 8 At seven bells in the morning all hands were called aft.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 94 We say it is two bells, three bells, etc., meaning there are two or three half-hours past. The watch of four hours is eight bells.

II. Transferred to bell-shaped objects.

4. A corolla shaped like a bell; hence in the name of various flowering plants, esp. of the genus Campanula, e.g. bluebell n., Canterbury bells n., harebell n.; dead men's bells (dialectal name of the Foxglove), heather-bell n., etc.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > petal > petals or corolla

bella1616

foliation1672

wrapper1718

pavilion1731

corolla1753

wreath1760

corol1791

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 89 In a Cowslips bell, I lie.

1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 24 in Justa Edouardo King Bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets.

1743 R. Blair Grave 15 Dew-drops on the Bells of Flow'rs.

1847 T. De Quincey Joan of Arc in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 185/1 Flower nor bud, bell nor blossom, would ever bloom for her.

5. Frequently applied to vessels bell-shaped, as a bell-glass, diving-bell, etc.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > glass case

case1600

bell1651

glass-bell1651

bell-glass1737

fernery1840

Wardian case1842

vivarium1853

terrarium1931

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > of specific shape

scallop1401

shipc1410

friar1463

columbe1488

culver1500

bell1651

cornet1677

churn1747

tulip-glass1755

situla1804

nacelle1873

thyrse1876

tsun1958

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > submersible vessel

diving-engine1601

diving-bella1684

submarine boat1713

bellc1715

diving-bladder1753

boat1802

diving-boat1802

bell-vessel1816

submarine1828

nautilus1875

submersible1900

bathysphere1930

bathyscaphe1947

mesoscaphe1955

1651 J. French Art Distillation iii. 68 The Bell must hang at such a distance from the other vessell.

1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Dict. in Compl. Gard'ner sig. Ai^v Bells, are large Glasses made in the form of Bells, to clap over tender Plants or such as are to be forced.

c1715 Halley in Sat. Mag. 20 Apr. (1839) 147/1 The..cavity of the [diving] bell was kept..free from water.

6. Any object or portion of an object shaped like a bell; esp. in various technical uses:

a. Architecture. ‘The naked vase or corbeille of the Corinthian or Composite capitals, round which the foliage and volutes are arranged.’ Gwilt.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > capital > parts of specific types of capital

caulis1563

helix1563

vase1563

voluta1563

cyllerie1592

codd1601

cilery1611

roll1611

turning1631

pillow1664

volute1696

tambour1706

collarino1715

annulet1728

colarin1728

drum1728

caulicoles1815

intervolute1831

bolster1842

stalk1842

horn1847

bell1848

cauliculusa1878

1848 J. H. Parker Rickman's Styles Archit. Eng. (ed. 5) 33 The bell is set round with two rows of leaves, eight in each row.

1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. ix. 102 The sloping stone is called the Bell of the capital.

b. The everted orifice of a trumpet or other wind instrument.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > [noun] > parts generally > end

bell1806

bell end1826

1806 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (ed. 2) Bell of a Horn, the large, open part of the instrument, from which the sound immediately issues.

1856 M. C. Clarke tr. H. Berlioz Treat. Mod. Instrumentation 130 The narrower the opening left in the bell [of a horn], the..rougher the note.

1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz ix. 201 The players [of cornets] got that effect by inverting glass tumblers over the bells of the instruments.

1966 Crescendo Oct. 22/3 Sitting only three feet from the..bell of Jimmy Heath's tenor [saxophone].

c. The body of a helmet.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > main body of helmet

bell1869

1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour iii. 55 The other variety,..has the bell of a more conical form.

1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour v. 77 Of figures..on the sides of the bell of the head-piece.

d. Mechanics. (See quots. 1881, 1893.)

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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > machine for loading or packing broken material

bell1881

slusher1923

power loader1943

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [noun] > with specific shape

sword1530

spider1860

arm1881

bell1881

Christmas tree1917

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 107 Bell and hopper. See Cup and cone.

1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I. Bell, the movable cap at the top of a modern blast-furnace, which is lifted to put in the charge of ore, etc.

1930 Engineering 2 May 589/1 10 per cent of the total gas made was lost owing to the use of single bells on the blast-furnaces.

1944 Gloss. Terms Gas Industry (B.S.I.) 26 Bell, the hollow cylinder closed at its upper end which forms the gas container.

e. (See quot. 1858) Cf. bell-tent n. at Compounds 2.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > store of weapons or equipment > [noun] > place for storing weapons

armoury1440

arsenal1572

magazinea1599

small armoury1713

armamentary1727

place of arms1768

ammunition depot1799

expense magazine1839

bell1858

ammunition dump1918

weapon-pita1944

silo1958

1858 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India III. ix. i. 559 The bells, or small huts, where the native arms..were deposited.

III. Phrases.

a. to bear the bell: to take the first place, to have foremost rank or position, to be the best. to bear or carry away the bell: to carry off the prize. The former phrase refers to the bell worn by the leading cow or sheep (cf. bellwether n.) of a drove or flock; the latter, perhaps, to a golden or silver bell sometimes given as the prize in races and other contests; but the two have been confused.

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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being the best > [verb (intransitive)]

to take the bun1371

to bear the bellc1374

to have, bear, carry, strike the stroke1531

to take the cake (also cakes)1839

to take (also cop, win) the biscuit1880

to ring the bell1900

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win > carry off the prize

to win the ringa1513

to bear or carry away the bell1594

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 149 And, let se which of yow shal bere the belle To speke of love aright?

1470 J. Hardyng Chron. lxxxi. xi At the last the Brytons bare the bell, And had the felde and all the victorye.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 113 Of alle the foles I can tell..Ye thre bere the bell.

1594 R. Barnfield Affectionate Shepheard ii. xxxix. sig. Di For pure white the Lilly beares the Bell.

1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xiii. 215 Iulius Cæsar..bare away the bell (in respect of fortunatenesse) from all other captains of the world.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 52 True Merchants, they carry the bell away from all other nations.

1742 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 4) I. 295 A very heady Malt Liquor, which..carries the Bell, by having the Name of the best Drink far and near.

1773 Pennant's Tour N. Wales A little golden bell was the reward of victory in 1607 at the races near York, whence came the proverb for success of any kind, to bear the bell.

1818 Ld. Byron Beppo x. 6 Venice the bell from every city bore.

†b. Similarly, to deserve or lose the bell, to give the bell. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > cause (one) to be successful

triumpha1571

to give the bell1600

to come off (also through, etc.) with flying colours1622

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > be defeated or overthrown [verb (intransitive)] > be defeated or lose

to have (also get) the worsec1275

leesec1300

lose1548

to deserve or lose the bell1600

to have the lower hand1693

to have the second best1708

to come off second best1777

skunk1867

to be dumped on1967

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win > carry off the prize > merit the prize

to deserve or lose the bell1600

1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xvii. lxix. 309 When in single fight he lost the bell.

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. iv. §4. 25 The follie of the Romanes doth well deserue the Bell.

1686 W. Aglionby Painting Illustr. (new ed.) 278 Which gave him the Bell above all Modern Artists.

c. to ring the bell: see ring v.¹ Phrases 1a(b).

d. to ring a bell: see ring v.¹ Phrases 1c.

e. to give (someone) a bell, to call (someone) by telephone, to ring up. Cf. tinkle n. 3. colloquial.

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society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > sound as signal [verb (transitive)] > call (someone) by telephone

to give (someone) a bell1982

1982 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 23 July 785/2 ‘An audition.’..‘I understand…I'll set it up and give you a bell.’

1985 Music Week 2 Feb. (Advt. section) 4 Give them a Bell on 402 3105.

1986 G. F. Newman Set Thief v. 58 I was going to give you a bell. But I thought it best to give the phone a miss.

8. by bell and book, book and bell (i.e. those used in the service of the mass): a frequent asseveration in the Middle Ages. to curse by bell, book, and candle: referring to a form of excommunication which closed with the words, ‘Doe to the book, quench the candle, ring the bell!’ Also used as summarizing the resources of the hierarchy against heretics, or the terrors of excommunication; and humorously, to indicate the accessories of a religious ceremony.

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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 17110 Curced in kirc þan sal þai be wid candil, boke, and bell.

c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 3023 So bus the do, by bel and boke.

c1420 Anters Arth. iii That borne was in Burgoyne, be boke and by belle.

1611 L. Barry Ram-Alley ii. sig. D3 I haue a Priest will mumble vp a marriage, Without bell, booke, or candle.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. iii. 12 Bell, Booke, & Candle, shall not driue me back, When gold and siluer becks me to come on!

1680 G. Hickes Spirit of Popery 45 The Field-Preachers damned this Bond with Bell, Book, and Candle.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 155 Hold thy hand, on pain of bell, book, and candle.

9. With allusion to the fable of the mice (or rats) who proposed to hang a bell round the cat's neck, so as to be warned of its approach. See also bell the cat in bell v.⁵

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1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. Prol. 168 Bugge a belle of brasse..And hangen it vp-on þe cattes hals; þanne here we mowen Where he ritt or rest.

a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. A.v^v Loth to hang the bell Aboute the cattes necke.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. E I will hang the bell about the cats necke.

a1633 Visct. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 14 Wishing some one would shew undaunted Valour, to tye the Bell about the Cats neck.

10. as sound or as clear as a bell; see sound adj., clear adj.

Compounds

C1. General relations.

a. Simple attributive.

bell-canopy n.

bell-chamber n.

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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > tower or steeple > [noun] > bell-tower > room within for bells

sollarc1305

belfry1549

bell-loft1765

bell-chamber1848

1848 J. H. Parker Rickman's Styles Archit. Eng. (ed. 5) 153 Sound-holes..are not used in the bell-chamber.

bell-chime n.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of bell

knellc961

ringOE

bell-dreamc1175

ringingc1300

clinkingc1386

knellingc1440

ding-dong1611

tang1669

jangling1686

jow17..

steeple-music1732

dinging1767

bell-chimea1822

jowl1822

tintinnabulation1831

ring-a-ding1844

a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III vi, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 243/2 Like a crazed bell-chime, out of tune.

bell-clapper n.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > clapper

clapper1379

swingle14..

bell-clapper1498

kneppelc1500

tongue1577

clap1608

clacker1869

jinglet1881

1498 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Dunstan's, Canterb. For makyng of new belclappers..xiijs. iiijd.

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 14 Large Bell-clappers..and all thick strong Bars, &c.

bell-cot n.

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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > tower or steeple > [noun] > bell-tower > room within for bells > canopy within which bells hang

bell-cot1859

1859 J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. IV. vii. 338 A bell-cot projecting from the face of the wall.

bell-cote n.

ΚΠ

1877 L. Jewitt Half-hours among Eng. Antiq. 175 The Sanctus Bell..hung in a small bell-cote at the apex of the gable.

bell-loft n.

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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > tower or steeple > [noun] > bell-tower > room within for bells

sollarc1305

belfry1549

bell-loft1765

bell-chamber1848

1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 213 In the bell-loft at St. Bride's.

bell-steeple n.

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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > tower or steeple > [noun] > bell-tower

bellhousea1000

clocher1354

belfryc1440

bell-tower1612

campanile1640

bell-gable1845

bell-steeple1847

belfry-tower1870

1847 Ld. Lindsay Sketches Hist. Christian Art I. 22 The round towers of Ireland..are bell-steeples.

† bell stoke n. Obsolete

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1522–4 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Dunstan's, Canterb. For mendyng of the bellstoke viijd.

bell-toll n.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of bell > large bell

knoll1379

toll1452

knolling1480

tollinga1513

tonging1584

thief and reever bell1777

bell-toll1860

donga1882

tong1881

1860 T. L. Peacock Gryll Grange xxxiv, in Fraser's Mag. Dec. 714 On the dreary midnight air Rolled the deep bell toll.

bell-tower n.

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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > tower or steeple > [noun] > bell-tower

bellhousea1000

clocher1354

belfryc1440

bell-tower1612

campanile1640

bell-gable1845

bell-steeple1847

belfry-tower1870

1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xxxv. 67/1 Whose Steeple or Bell-Tower being both beautifull and high.

a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 258 The bell-tower..becomes the culminating ornament of the whole exterior.

b. Objective.

bell-baptism n.

ΚΠ

1872 H. T. Ellacombe Bells of Church v. 78 The ceremony of bell baptism exceeds in splendour and minutiæ the baptism of Christians.

bell-bearer n.

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the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock > member of livestock > that carries a bell

bell-bearer1607

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 239 Neither haue Goates a Captaine or Bell-bearer like vnto sheepe.

bell-caster n.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of bells

bell-yetter1298

bell-maker1483

bell-founder1530

bell-melter1604

bell-caster1628

belleter1891

1628 in Earwaker E. Cheshire I. 107 note Going to enquire for the bellcaster.

bell-casting n.

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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making of other specific articles or materials > [noun] > bell-making

bell-casting1872

bell-founding1872

1872 H. T. Ellacombe Bells of Church i. 3 I describe the modern process of bell casting.

bell-hallower n.

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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > blessing bells

bell-hallower1549

1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 5th Serm. sig. Pii Preachers, not Belhalowers.

bell-maker n.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of bells

bell-yetter1298

bell-maker1483

bell-founder1530

bell-melter1604

bell-caster1628

belleter1891

1483 Cath. Angl. 27 A Belle maker, campanarius.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy v. 1589 Belmakers, bokebynders, brasiers fyn.

c. Similative and parasynthetic.

(a)

bell-barrow n. [barrow n.¹ 3]

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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > mound > of specific shape

long barrow1724

round barrow1768

bell-barrow1812

bowl-barrow1812

disc barrow1871

horned cairn1877

ridge barrow1927

1743 W. Stukeley Abury ix. 41 Barrows with ditches round them. These are..generally of an elegantly turn'd bell-form.]

1812 R. C. Hoare Anc. Hist. S. Wilts. 21 Bell Barrow. This, from the elegance of its form, seems to have been a refinement on the Bowl Barrow: they abound in the neighbourhood of Stonehenge.

1928 O. G. S. Crawford & A. Keiller Wessex from Air iv. 13 Some Bell-barrows certainly belong to the very beginning of the period... The name is, of course, derived from the form. The mound is high, and is usually separated from the surrounding ditch by a narrow shelf or berm of natural soil.

bell-beaker n. [beaker n. 1c]

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > beaker (Bronze Age) > specific

bell-beaker1902

butt beaker1933

funnel-beaker1954

1902 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 17 390 The different class of beaker..is often called the ‘Bell-beaker’, from its caliciform or bell-shaped form.

1925 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization xix. 293 In Bavaria and Thuringia as elsewhere, the bell-beaker folk had used metal.

1967 Antiquaries Jrnl. 47 182 Crichel Down in Dorset..where one sherd of rusticated ware was found associated with small sherds of the Bell-Beaker class.

bell-button n.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > fastenings > button > types of

hair-button1593

frog1635

bar-button1685

frost button1686

sleeve-button1686

berry-button1702

stud1715

pearl button1717

breast button1742

bell-button1775

shell button1789

red button1797

olivet1819

bullet-buttons1823

basket-button1836

all-over1838

top1852

olive1890

pearly1890

nail head1892

1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 7 The beaus..choose bell-buttons, to give a greater sound.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick vi. 36 He orders bell-buttons to his waistcoats.

bell-cup n.

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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > other specific shapes

gripe's egg1391

gripe-shell15..

Priapus1613

man with the beard1631

delphin1638

belly-cup1673

spout cup1702

leaf cup1716

image mug1788

rhyton1820

toby1841

Sussex pig1846

bell-cupa1849

biberon1853

moustache cup1863

trembleuse cup1869

steeple-cup1909

thistle cup1947

a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 308 From gloomy iron bell-cups they drank the Saxon wine.

bell-lamp n.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > defined by shape

bell-lamp1836

dome-light1956

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz The bell-lamp in the passage.

bell-mouth n.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > mouth or orifice > types of

trumpet-mouth1835

bell-mouth1836

1836 F. Marryat Snarleyyow ii, in Metropolitan Jan. 36 The bell mouth of his speaking trumpet.

1896 Daily News 29 May 6/7 The huge brass bellmouth apparatus fixed on the prompt side of the opera proscenium is an electrophone.

1930 Engineering 4 Apr. 436/1 The lining at both extremities of the cutout ends, including the bell-mouth.

1958 J. S. Scott Dict. Civil Engin. 22 Bellmouth overflow, an overflow from a reservoir through a tower built up from the bed to the overflow level.

1967 Jane's Surface Skimmer Syst. 1967–8 106/1 There is a dam for solid water separation and four right angle turns before the air reaches the engine bellmouths.

bell-net n.

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1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 9 The very sky..Dropping its bell-net down upon the sea.

bell-shape n.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > other types of helmet

kettle-hat1380

salletc1440

knapscall1498

armet1507

bonnet?a1513

morion1547

burgonet1570

heaume1572

Bourguignonne1578

castle1587

casquet1611

cabasset1622

casquetel1796

knapscapa1802

comb-cap1825

tilting-helmet1846

pickelhaube1853

Waterloo helmet1853

bell-shape1869

schapska1894

pudding basin1925

1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour iii. 55 One is a helm of a deep bell shape.

(b)

bell-bored adj.

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1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 32 To know whether she be..taper, or belbored.

bell-crowned adj.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [adjective] > hat > having specific types of crown

copping-tanked1586

high-crowned1598

steeple-moulded1710

steeple-crowned1804

bell-crowned1823

1823 J. Doddridge Dialogue of Backwoodsman & Dandy in Logan (1868) Your bell crowned hat.

1854 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Central Amer. (1854) 18 A bell-crowned straw hat.

1910 J. Farnol Broad Highway i. xvi. 86 It's precious lucky for you as you are a-wearin' that there bell-crowned 'at!

bell-fashioned adj.

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the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > [adjective] > bell-shaped

campanal1591

campanulate1668

bell-fashioned1698

bell-shaped1758

campaniform1758

tintinnabulate1873

1698 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 315 A large Bell-fashioned cinereous Calyx.

bell-hooded adj.

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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [adjective] > having or not having chimney(s) > types of chimney or flue

tunnelled1819

bell-hooded1883

1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 208/1 The smoke..escaped up a big bell-hooded flue.

bell-mouthed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > having (spec. type of) mouth

narrow-mouthed1563

large-mouthed1576

bell-mouthed1797

whale-mouthed1952

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > [adjective] > other qualities or attributes

bell-mouthed1797

reverse1839

throttled1850

reversible1852

steam-jacketed1876

multi-cylindera1884

multiple-cylinder1888

four-cycle1909

multi-cylindered1909

knockless1928

throttleable1951

multi-fuel1957

stretched1960

multi-fuelled1964

1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 47 For the common engine..[cylinders] must be bell-mouthed ¼ of an inch on each side.

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII lxxii. 91 His bell-mouthed goblet makes me feel quite..Dutch with thirst.

1946 Nature 2 Nov. 635/2 A bell-mouthed estuary.

bell-nosed adj.

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the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > [adjective] > bell-shaped > at front

bell-nosed1881

1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 6 The barrel is..bell-nosed upon the outside.

bell-shaped adj.

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the world > plants > appearance of plant > form of plant or that has parts of particular shape > [adjective] > having particular shape or shaped parts

jagged1548

crowned1578

fingered1597

handed1597

hooded1597

unbranched1665

starred1693

bell-like1754

bell-shaped1758

campaniform1758

columniferous1785

gladiate1793

bottlebrush1798

antlereda1806

muscariform1839

sagittiferous1858

crested1861

unseptated1899

unseptate1900

palmiform1962

the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > [adjective] > bell-shaped

campanal1591

campanulate1668

bell-fashioned1698

bell-shaped1758

campaniform1758

tintinnabulate1873

1758 Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 65 Campaniform or bell-shaped flowers.

1879 A. Bennett in Academy 32 The open bell-shaped mouth of the corolla.

d. Instrumental with past participle.

bell-hung adj.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > hung with ornament > specific

trophied1622

bell-hung1870

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 145 The bell-hung bridle-rein.

bell-like adj.

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the world > plants > appearance of plant > form of plant or that has parts of particular shape > [adjective] > having particular shape or shaped parts

jagged1548

crowned1578

fingered1597

handed1597

hooded1597

unbranched1665

starred1693

bell-like1754

bell-shaped1758

campaniform1758

columniferous1785

gladiate1793

bottlebrush1798

antlereda1806

muscariform1839

sagittiferous1858

crested1861

unseptated1899

unseptate1900

palmiform1962

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [adjective]

ringingc1400

tinging1591

tinnient1668

outringing1842

ringy1852

bell-like1865

1754 J. Hill Useful Family Herbal 295 The Flowers are..of a Bell-like Shape.

1865 F. Boyle Dyaks of Borneo 56 Sending forth his clear bell-like challenge.

e. poetic.

ΚΠ

1879 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 79 Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd.

1888 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 198 Bellbright bodies huddling out.

1889 W. B. Yeats Wanderings of Oisin iii. 38 I gazed on the bell-branch, sleep's forebear.

1919 W. de la Mare Flora 33 On the mirroring sands Bell-shrill the oyster-catchers.

1935 W. Empson Poems 24 Drowned under flounces and bell-calm of trees.

1945 W. de la Mare Burning-glass & Other Poems 75 Its secret bell-clear song.

C2. Special combinations: See also bell-bird n., bell-flower n., bell-founder n., bell-glass n., bellhouse n., bellman n., bell-metal n., bellrags n., bell-ringer n., bell-rope n., bellwether n., bellwort n.

bell-animalcules n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Infusoria > subclass Ciliata > [noun] > order Peritrichida > family Vorticellidae > member of

vorticella1787

vorticel1835

vorticellid1865

bell-animalcules1875

peritrichan1888

peritrich1926

1875 Med. Trainer & Gaz. 8 May 495/1 A species of Amphileptus has been observed to swallow—or rather envelope—a stalked bell-animalcule (Vorticella).

1959 J. Clegg Freshwater Life Brit. Isles (ed. 2) v. 100 The Bell Animalcules, as the various species of Vorticella are popularly called, are found in dense masses at times.

bell-animals n. English name for the Vorticellidæ, infusorial animalcules having a bell- or wine-glass-shaped body on a long flexible stalk.

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bell-binder n. the large Wild Convolvulus or Bindweed.

bell-bit n. ‘the bit of a bridle made in the form of a bell’ (Halliwell).

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > bit

kevela1300

barnaclea1382

bitc1385

molanc1400

bridle bit1438

snafflea1533

titup1537

bastonet?1561

cannon?1561

scatch1565

cannon bit1574

snaffle-bit1576

port mouth1589

watering snaffle1593

bell-bit1607

campanel1607

olive1607

pear-bit1607

olive-bit1611

port bit1662

neck-snaffle1686

curb-bit1688

masticador1717

Pelham1742

bridoon1744

slabbering-bit1753

hard and sharp1787

Weymouth1792

bridoon-bit1795

mameluke bit1826

Chiffney-bit1834

training bit1840

ring snaffle1850

gag-snaffle1856

segundo1860

half-moon bit1875

stiff-bit1875

twisted mouth1875

thorn-bit1886

Scamperdale1934

bit-mouth-

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 58 That byt which we call the..Campanell or Bell byt.

bell-boat n. a boat with a bell freely suspended on it so as to ring as the vessel is moved by the waves, and thus give notice of danger.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > other vessels marking danger

bar-boat1857

bell-boat1858

automatic pilot1897

1858 in Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 253 A Bell Boat has been placed just outside the bar.

bell-bottomed adj. of trousers, having a considerable increase in width from below the knee to the bottom of the leg, giving a bell-shaped appearance; also, of an individual, esp. of a class accustomed to wear such trousers.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [adjective] > trousers > types of

un-codpieced1580

canioned1607

braceless1859

bell-bottom1882

broad-beamed1883

kneed1887

bell-bottomed1891

fall-front1899

stagged1902

pegged1905

pedal pusher1912

pipestem1915

drainpipe1930

chino1943

anti-g1945

low-rise1948

cuffless1957

low-riding1958

hip-hugging1968

plus twos1977

1891 Argus (Melbourne) 5 Dec. 13/2 in E. E. Morris Austral Eng. (1898) The bell-bottomed ballottee.

1904 Daily Chron. 6 June 4/5 The crews were not less smart in..blue jackets and white bell-bottomed ducks.

1910 Westm. Gaz. 20 Jan. 2/3 A navvy with a three weeks' beard and bell-bottomed trousers.

1955 ‘N. Shute’ Requiem for Wren 83 A naval cutter manned by two Wrens in jerseys and bell-bottomed trousers.

bell-bottoms n. (plural) bell-bottomed trousers.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose > flared

sailor trousers1851

bell-bottoms1898

Oxford bags1925

Oxford trousers1925

Oxfords1929

sailor pants1931

bell1948

flare1964

loons1971

1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 220 They 'ad a crease right dahn 'em, an' bell bottoms.

1929 Daily News 10 Apr. 7/3 An official [of the Admiralty] said: ‘..Bell-bottoms are the Navy. Abolish them and you abolish the Navy.’

bell-bridle n. a bridle hung or adorned with bells.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle

haltera1000

bridleOE

brake1430

gorel1480

watering bridle1502

mollet-bridle1503

headgear1538

slipe1586

chase-halter1607

branks1657

bit-bridle1676

curb-bridle1677

chain-bridle1690

blind-halter1711

ox-riem1817

blind-bridle1833

bell-bridle1836

training halter1842

hackamore1850

Pelham bridle1875

quoiler1876

knee-halter1892

war bridle1962

side pull1965

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. vi. 147 Two fine mules with bell-bridles.

bell-buoy n. a buoy with a bell.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > buoy > other types of buoy

can-buoy1626

mast-buoy1675

nun buoy1703

breakwater1769

under-buoy1793

light buoy1822

bell-buoy1838

spar-buoy1860

gas buoy1865

whistling buoy1880

puppy1890

singing-buoy1894

gas float1895

1838 E. Flagg Far West in R. G. Thwaites Early Western Trav. (1908) XXVI. 52 The hated clang of the bell-boy [sic] was soon after heard..throughout the cabins.

1884 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xl. 315 The melancholy cadence of the bell-buoy.

a1910 ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 60 A pale-faced, fat man huskily enveloped him with a raised, red fist, and the voice of a bell buoy.

bell captain n. U.S. one who supervises a group of bellboys.

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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > who runs errands > boy > in an hotel or inn > supervisor

bell captain1926

captain1942

1926 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 20 Nov. 315 His experienced demeanor among hotel porters and ticket agents and..Bell Captains.

1944 Reader's Digest Mar. 108 The coruscating bell captain commands an army of bell-boys.

bell cord n. a cord to be pulled in order to ring a bell, spec. in a passenger vehicle.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > bus or tram with specific number of decks > bell-cord for use of passengers

bell cord1843

bell strap1922

1843 Knickerbocker 21 332 He found no bell-cord to pull.

1875 Chicago Tribune 2 July 8/1 When a half-drunken man has hold of the bell-cord instead of the strap to steady himself by.

† bell-course n. Obsolete a race for a bell.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race

wild-goose race1594

wild goose chase1597

bell-course1607

Palio1673

stake1696

paddock course1705

handicap1751

by-match1759

pony race1765

give and take plate1769

sweepstake1773

steeplechase1793

mile-heat1802

steeple race1809

welter1820

trotting-race1822

scurry1824

walkover1829

steeple hunt1831

set-to1840

sky race1840

flat race1848

trot1856

grind1857

feeler1858

nursery1860

waiting race1868

horse-trot1882

selling plate1888

flying milea1893

chase1894

flying handicap1894

prep1894

selling race1898

point-to-point1902

seller1922

shoo-in1928

daily double1930

bumper1946

selling chase1965

tiercé1981

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 12 I haue seene them vsed at our English Bell-courses.

bell-crank n. a crank or species of lever adapted to communicate motion from one bell-wire to another lying at right angles to it; also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > lever > [noun] > others

hammer1546

pawl1730

swinger1825

key1837

throw lever1866

sweep-rod1867

bell-crank1881

control lever1887

touch key1957

1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 110 On the lever [of Brocot's Perpetual Calendar].., is pivotted freely a bell-crank lever.

bell-crater n. Ancient Greek History a bell-shaped bowl (see crater n. 1).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > bowl > specific types of

bread bowl1622

lavel1658

tazza1824

mixing bowl1869

sebilla1875

presentation bowl1896

lekane1905

bell-crater1921

witch bowl1926

hanging-bowl1940

1921 Brit. Mus. Return 61 Bell-crater, late red-figure style.

1939 J. D. S. Pendlebury Archaeol. Crete vi. 309 The bell-kraters are deeper and less swelling.

† bell-dream n. Obsolete the sound or music of a bell.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of bell

knellc961

ringOE

bell-dreamc1175

ringingc1300

clinkingc1386

knellingc1440

ding-dong1611

tang1669

jangling1686

jow17..

steeple-music1732

dinging1767

bell-chimea1822

jowl1822

tintinnabulation1831

ring-a-ding1844

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 922 Þe belle dræm bitacneþþ ȝuw..dræm þatt ȝuw birrþ herenn.

bell-faced adj. (of a hammer) having the striking surface convex or rounded.

bell-gable n. a gable or turret in which bells are hung.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > tower or steeple > [noun] > bell-tower

bellhousea1000

clocher1354

belfryc1440

bell-tower1612

campanile1640

bell-gable1845

bell-steeple1847

belfry-tower1870

1845 Gloss. Goth. Arch. I. 54 In small churches and chapels that have no towers, there is very frequently a bell-gable or turret at the west end in which the bells are hung.

bell-girdle n. a girdle or belt hung or adorned with bells.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > belt or sash > types of > other

breechgirdlea1300

demiceint1483

demi-girdle1533

bracing-girdle1552

purse-girdle1559

yellow ribbon1651

burdash1707

body belt1823

subcingulum1824

zoster1824

bell-girdle1833

hip girdle1853

Sam Browne belt1878

belly-band1888

waspie1957

tie belt1964

1833 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. v, in Fraser's Mag. Dec. 669/1 Whether he..tower up in high headgear, from amid peaks, spangles and bell-girdles.

bell-handle n. the handle by which a bell-rope or bell-wire is pulled.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > handle > of specific tool

crankc1000

steal1377

pipe1397

pot-hook1397

shaft1530

fork-shafta1642

bell-handle1768

hasp1770

fettle1812

panhandle1890

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 21 A bell-handle hanging by your chimney side.

bell-hanger n. one whose business it is to put up bells, bell-wires, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > others

bell-hanger1540

powder monkey1670

articulator1798

universalist1801

sander1854

gummer?1881

shaver1885

wire-cutter1888

knacker1890

radiologist1905

groundhog1926

dogman1948

1540 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 160 John Payne, bellehanger.

1789 E. Sheridan Let. in Betsy Sheridan's Jrnl. (1986) viii. 180 I have scribbled thus far in the midst of the noise of Bell-hangers who are rectifying all negligence of our predecessors.

1791 in Harper's Mag. Mar. 1885. 534/2 P^d a bell hanger on a/c 5s.

1851 W. Irving in Life IV. 71 Plumbers and bellhangers [are] to attack the vitals of the house.

bell-hanging n.

bell-harp n. (see quot.).

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > other stringed instruments > [noun] > others

sambucac1384

barbiton1545

alpharion1599

barbit1624

strumstrum1697

magadis1721

polychord1737

bumbassa1796

bell-harp1798

pipa1839

cavaquinho1863

nanga1864

bow1872

zither1877

ukeke1891

molo1912

pluriarc1923

Helicon-

1798 W. Hutton Life 17 One of them played upon the bell-harp.

1815 Encycl. Brit. X. 277/1 Bell-Harp, a musical instrument of the string kind, thus called from the common players on it swinging it about, as a bell on its basis.

bell-heather n. the cross-leaved heath, Erica tetralix (Jamieson).

bell-hop n. U.S. and Canadian a hotel page-boy (cf. bellboy n. 2).

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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > who runs errands > boy > in an hotel or inn

bellboy1861

hall-boy1884

bell-hopper1900

bell-hop1910

1910 G. Ade I knew him When 14 He is not a bell hop—the boys used to dress like that.

1919 D. L. Cady Rhymes Vermont Rural Life (1923) 99 The traveler saw no bellhops hop.

1922 Short Stories Feb. 21/1 I ran into a bell-hop who was always paging me.

1925 A. Loos Gentlemen prefer Blondes iii. 83 The boy friend of ours who is the bell hop, waked me up at ten o'clock.

bell-hopper n.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > who runs errands > boy > in an hotel or inn

bellboy1861

hall-boy1884

bell-hopper1900

bell-hop1910

1900 G. Ade More Fables 5 When he got back to his Room the Bell-Hopper came round and asked him if he cared to Sit in a Quiet Game.

bell-horn n. a horn which gives a bell-like tone.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > horn > [noun] > other horns

earth horn?a1400

oliphantc1400

ruetc1400

buck-hornc1550

stock-horn1597

bell-horna1640

sea-cornet1653

dudeen?1790

carnyx1810

shofar1833

wonder-horn1864

handhorn1871

post-horn1881

a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. L13^v Rouse ye the lofty Stag, and with my bell-horne, Ring him a knell.

bell-horse n. a horse wearing a bell or bells, esp. a horse adorned with bells, flowers, ribbons, etc. to celebrate the advent of May; the leading horse of a pack-train.

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madrina1835

1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 337 But they [sc. the Choctaw Indians]..stole one of the bell horses.

1891 Harper's Mag. Nov. 890/1 The pack trains consisted of a ‘bell-horse’ and boy, and six horses following.

bell-horse-day n. the first of May.

bell instrument n. one for signalling by means of a bell.

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1907 Westm. Gaz. 29 Oct. 9/1 He used the bell instrument for the Kilburn signal-box.

bell-jar n. a bell-shaped glass jar used in chemical and physical laboratories.

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air-bell1782

transfer-jar1827

ignition tube1874

beaker1877

bell-jar1877

flask1878

steam-bomb1895

Nessler tube1906

oxygen bottle1932

1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography vi. 77 These bubbles may be..collected in the bell-jar.

bell-less adj. destitute of a bell.

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bell-less1667

1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 87 The tops of Steeples Belless.

bell-mare n. in herding mules on the prairies, a mare which wears a bell and acts as leader to the troop, etc.

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funnel1835

bell-mare1859

1859 R. B. Marcy Prairie Traveler iv. 101 A bell-mare, to which the mules soon become so attached that they will follow her wherever she goes.

† bell-melter n. Obsolete a bell-founder, a founder.

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bell-yetter1298

bell-maker1483

bell-founder1530

bell-melter1604

bell-caster1628

belleter1891

1604 Supplic. Certaine Masse-priests §10 note Popes, Monkes, or Friars, the originall belmelters of Poperie.

bell-moth n. a group of moths of the family Tortricidæ, named from their outline when at rest.

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bell-moth1841

oak leaf roller1877

roller1877

red-banded leafroller1886

1841 E. Newman Familiar Introd. Hist. Insects iv. ii. 214 Bell-moths..with filiform antennæ.

bell-mouth v. (transitive) to furnish with a bell-mouth.

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nozzle1866

bell-mouth1880

1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 463/2 It is often desirable to bell-mouth the ends of pipes.

bell-pepper n. a species of Capsicum ( C. grossum), so called from the shape of the fruit.

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case pepper1631

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bell-pepper1707

goat peppera1726

bayberry1756

bird's eye pepper1829

bird's eye1842

pimiento1845

bird's eye chilli1851

paprika1851

pimento1885

datil1900

chile ancho1906

chile mulato1907

pasilla1929

jalapeño pepper1949

poblano1950

Serrano1952

chile poblano1972

1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 241 Bell Pepper. The fruit is large..somewhat shaped like a bell.

1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 314 The Bell Pepper..a biennial..native of India.

bell-polype n. = (bell-animalcules n.).

bell-pull n. a cord or handle attached to a bell-wire, by pulling which the bell is rung.

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to pluck the ribbon1699

string1748

bell-pull1825

1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 29 Oct. 259 There was a parlour! Aye, and a carpet and bell-pull too!

1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 59 The bell-pull was also within reach: but she had an aversion to ringing the bell.

1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia II. ii. vi. 223 Beside the door..a row of some ten or twelve bell-pulls.

1865 Cornhill Mag. Feb. 167 A pair of large tassels with loops of cord-like bell-pulls.

bell-punch n. (see quot. a1884).

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pointrel1476

punch1505

punk1670

puncher1681

dog-tooth1736

pommel1793

keypunch1850

bear1853

bell-punch1877

summary punch1934

1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) Gong-Punch, an instrument used by conductors [etc.]..a bell-punch.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 93/2 Bell Punch, a hand-punch, for perforating a ticket or trip slip. It secures the piece punched out, and rings a bell; in some instruments it also registers the fares collected.

1894 Westm. Gaz. 26 Sept. 2/2 Thanks to the bell-punch, the number of passengers carried can now be estimated with tolerable accuracy.

bell-push n. the button that is pushed to ring an electric bell; also, a table bell to be rung in this way.

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bell-push1884

1884 D. P. Heap Rep. Internat. Exhib. Electr. Paris 1881 26 This little battery..is contained in the ordinary bell-push.

1887 Cassell's Family Mag. 703/2 An indicating disc, which by its vibrations tells the bell push..of the person who has rung up.

1921 Blackwood's Mag. June 739/2 Pressing the bell-push to call the steward.

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bell-rheometer n. a bell-shaped instrument for measuring the strength of an electric current.

bell-roof n. a roof shaped like a bell.

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vaulta1387

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French roof1669

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mansard1704

curb-roof1733

shed roof1736

gable roof1759

gambrel roof1761

living roof1792

pent roof1794

span-roof1823

wagon-head1823

azotea1824

rafter roof1825

rooflet1825

wagon-vault1835

bell-roof1842

spire-roof1842

cradle-roof1845

packsaddle roof1845

open roof1847

umbrella roof1847

gambrel1848

packsaddle1848

compass-roof1849

saddleback1849

saddle roof1850

curbed roof1866

wagon-roof1866

saw-tooth roof1900

trough roof1905

skillion roof1911

north-light roof1923

shell roof1954

green roof1984

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1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 933 Bell Roof,..is often called an ogee roof from its form.

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bell-rose n. the daffodil (Somerset).

bell-shade n. a bell-shaped light-shade.

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shade1780

globe1796

moonshade1830

abat-jour1844

lampshade1850

bell-shade1890

lightshade1912

1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 140 At one chair here some large bell-shades for lamps are being made.

† bell-shaped parabola n. Obsolete a cubic parabola in which the point of the curve on its axis is not a stationary point, and which does not cross itself (i.e. the curve is roughly bell-shaped).

bell-sheep n. Australian (see quot.).

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1900 H. Lawson On Track (1945) xvi. 99 He times himself to get so many sheep out of the pen before the bell goes [for breakfast or dinner], and one more—the ‘bell-sheep’— as it is ringing.

bell-signal n. a signal transmitted by the bell-telegraph; so bell-signalling (both disused).

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bell-signalling1905

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bell-signal1905

1905 Westm. Gaz. 19 Apr. 8/1 He announced the fact..by sending to him the block telegraph bell-signal ‘Vehicles running away on right line’.

1905 Daily Chron. 16 Nov. 7/3 Bell-signalling between torpedo craft and submarines in night-time.

bell-skirt n. a bell-shaped skirt of a garment.

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skirting1821

bell-skirt1907

1907 ‘O. Henry’ in Sunday Mag. (N.-Y. Tribune) 13 Jan. 6/2 The latest thing in suitings with side vents and bell skirt.

1940 W. Empson Gathering Storm 35 One swing of the bell skirt.

bell-sleeve n. a long sleeve flared at the lower edge.

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Amadis1814

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sling-sleeve1888

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kimono sleeve1919–20

dolman1934

1892 Daily News 26 Oct. 2/1 The ‘bell’ sleeves are turned back with white silk.

1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 15/1 Bell sleeve, second half 19th c. Close-fitting to mid-forearm and there expanding into a bell-shaped opening.

bell-stone n. the part of a column which lies between the shaft and the abacus (cf. 6a).

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bell-stone1851

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1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. ix. 104 [The] treatment of the capital depends simply on the manner in which this bell stone is prepared.

bell strap n. = bell cord n. (Funk, 1893).

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bell cord1843

bell strap1922

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 213 The conductor pulled the bellstrap.

bell-string n. = bell-rope n.

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furniture1756

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slider1871

mushroom head1872

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pit1874

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sally-pin1879

sally-pulley1901

sally-wheel1901

1464 in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 222 Le bell strynges..sunt defectiva.

bell-team n. a team of horses adorned with bells.

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cartware1555

set1688

bell-team1824

1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 199 Walking..by the side of his bell-team.

bell-telegraph n. an instrument in which two bells are used to transmit a message, one indicating (by its tone) the movement of the needle to the right, the other, to the left (disused).

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telegraph1793

tellograph1796

semaphore1815

semaphore signal1826

shutter-telegraph1859

bell-telegrapha1877

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. Bell-telegraph,..invented by Sir Charles Bright.

bell-tent n. a tent resembling a bell in shape.

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tenticle1548

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gourbi1738

marquise1749

yurt1780

bell-tent1785

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shuldari1808

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Swiss cottage1820

skin house1826

big tent1843

ridge tent1846

brush tent1862

dog tent1862

shelter tent1862

wall-tent1862

wedge tent1862

pup tent1863

A tent1863

tupik1864

tentlet1879

choom1889

pyramid1889

tortoise tent1890

safari tent1926

tent-sack1940

tent-trailer1963

tepee1970

trailer tent1971

Whillans box1971

1785 W. Roy in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 393 One of the pyramidal bell-tents..being placed at the station.

bell-top n. (see quot.).

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1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 96 Bell-top, a term applied to the top of a quarter-gallery when the upper stool is hollowed away.

bell-topper n. a ‘topper’, or top-hat, esp. one of old-fashioned type with a bell-shaped crown.

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stovepipe1851

bell-topper1858

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tile-hat1937

1858 W. Kelly Life in Victoria I. xvi. 268 Bell-topper was the derisive name given by diggers to [an] old style hat, supposed to indicate the dandy swell.

1858 W. Kelly Life in Victoria I. xvi. 268 Merchants ventured to the Chamber of Commerce in the regular British ‘bell-topper’, some of the nattier going the length of sporting kid gloves.

1871 Fav. Reciter (Simpkin) 6 A bell-topper hat.

1888 B. L. Farjeon Miser Farebrother II. i. 3 On his head the shiniest of belltoppers.

1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King xxxi. 274 Sitting next to him was a ‘swell’ whose belltopper Kidman was quietly admiring.

bell-trap n. a stench-trap resembling a bell in shape.

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well trap1819

bell-trap1867

ball trap1873

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pot trap1884

1867 W. Papworth Gwilt's Encycl. Archit. (rev. ed.) ii. iii. 661 The usual iron bell trap, as supplied to a sink.

bell-tubing n. tubing through which a bell-wire is passed in order to protect it.

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bell-tubing1881

1881 Mechanic §1540. 692 It is usual..to provide for the passage of the bell wires from floor to floor by inserting bell-tubing in the walls.

† bell-vessel n. Obsolete a diving-bell.

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diving-engine1601

diving-bella1684

submarine boat1713

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boat1802

diving-boat1802

bell-vessel1816

submarine1828

nautilus1875

submersible1900

bathysphere1930

bathyscaphe1947

mesoscaphe1955

1816 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 93/1 The bell-vessel was..lowered with Fisher and two other men..in 33 feet of water.

bell-ware n. (see quot.).

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ore1587

float-ore1602

vraic1610

woad of the seaa1613

oarweed1622

bell-ware1812

laminaria1848

1812 Agric. Surv. Caithn. 182 (Jam.) Bell-ware..is the kelp weed along the Scottish shores.

bell-waver v. Scottish ‘to fluctuate, to be inconstant; applied to the mind’ (Jamieson).

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1820 W. Scott Monastery I. vii. 202 I doubt me, his wits have gone a bell-wavering.

bell-weight n. a weight shaped somewhat like a bell.

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bell-weight1744

1744 Philos. Trans. 1742–3 (Royal Soc.) 42 552 Pound Bell-Weights, and the single Pound flat Weight.

bell-wheel n. the wheel to which an ordinary church-bell is attached, and by which it is swung.

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yokeOE

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cagea1640

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crown1688

sound-bow1688

belfry1753

furniture1756

sounding bow1756

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busk-board1851

headstock1851

sally hole1851

slider1871

mushroom head1872

sally beam1872

pit1874

tolling-lever1874

sally-pin1879

sally-pulley1901

sally-wheel1901

1529 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Dunstan's, Canterb. For mendyng of the belwhele, xd.

bell-wire n. the wire by which a bell-pull is connected with the bell.

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bell-wire1760

1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 288 The Bell-wire, coming from the parlour below.

1865 N. Arnott Elements Physics (ed. 6) ii. 445 Bell-wires too slack in summer, may be of the proper length in winter.

† bell-yetter n. Obsolete a bell-founder (lit. ‘bell-pourer’).

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bell-yetter1298

bell-maker1483

bell-founder1530

bell-melter1604

bell-caster1628

belleter1891

1298 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Wills Court of Husting (1889) I. 134 Belȝeterslane.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 30 Bellȝetare, campanarius.

1881 J. P. Briscoe Old Notts. 118 The bellyetters trade has now found its way..into the hands of a few great firms.

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Scottish. In plural with the. (The striking of) midnight on New Year's Eve.

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1984 L. Lochhead Dreaming Frankenstein 66 Nae time eftir the Bells, and the New Year new in wi' the Usual crowd.

1992 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 26 Dec. 6 Whisky is not the only thing to drink before and after the bells, but it should have pride of place.

2005 B. Kirkpatrick Haggis, Hogmanay & Halloween 54 Many..will have hurried home from wherever they happened to be, anxious to be home with their closest family before the ‘bells’.

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bell curve n. a graph of a normal (Gaussian) distribution; also figurative.

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Quetelet1909

bell curve1970

1970 Balance Sheet Oct. 64/2 Research may be used to classify the effort into three basic methods:..(2) through use of the normal distribution hypothesis (bell curve) [etc.].

1973 T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow i. 51 Exit doors painted beige, but with edges smudged browner in bell-curves of farewell by the generation of hands.

1978 J. M. Pasachoff & M. L. Kutner University Astron. iv. 96 If the errors are purely random, then this plot will look like a Gaussian distribution (also called a normal or bell curve).

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bells and whistles n. [as on a fairground organ] colloquial attractive additional features or trimmings, esp. in Computing.

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bells and whistles1977

1977 Byte July 122/2 This simple circuit..even has a few outputs that can be used to provide user defined functions, such as enabling external devices or turning on bells and whistles.

1983 Austral. Personal Computer Dec. 82/3 1-2-3 has a full complement of the usual bells and whistles... Column widths can be varied, cells protected, screen split in two, models split, merged and printed.

1984 Sunday Times 26 Aug. 49/1 There are more than 600 microsystems on the market so it is hardly surprising that the manufacturers have taken to hanging a few bells and whistles on to their machines to get them noticed.

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colloquial. In plural. A pair of bell-bottomed trousers; cf. bell-bottomed adj. at Compounds 2.

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sailor trousers1851

bell-bottoms1898

Oxford bags1925

Oxford trousers1925

Oxfords1929

sailor pants1931

bell1948

flare1964

loons1971

1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces Slang Bells, bell-bottomed trousers. (Lower-deck).

1970 New Yorker 21 Mar. 39 A pair of red velvet bells.

2008 Prince George (Brit. Columbia) Citizen (Nexis) 28 Oct. 28 There was a style of pants to fit the mould for any fashion fan, from tightly tapered to flared denim bells.

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bell-bottom adj. = bell-bottomed adj. at Compounds 2.

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hip-hugging1968

plus twos1977

1882 Rec. Fashion 11 Oct. 299/1 A certain class of customers are very partial to what is known as ‘bell bottom’ trousers, made from 16 to 17 inches at knee, and from 18½ to 19½in. at bottom.

1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 142 He looked a reg'lar dook. He'd a pair o' lavinder-coloured bell-bottom trowsis.

1948 B. Griffith Amer. Me i. ii. 46 They had brought with them..a sartorial style—ducktail haircuts and flared bell-bottom trousers—that made them distinctive.

2002 J. Goad Shit Magnet iii. 32 I'm wearing..two-tone purple-and-cream bell-bottom pants over argyle socks and..platform shoes, so I still look really cool.

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slang. to knock (also beat, kick, etc.) — bells out of (with — as a variable number): to beat or thrash severely. Also (similarly): to scare (also frighten) — bells out of: to terrify. [After to knock (also beat, kick, etc.) seven bells out of a person at seven adj. and n. Phrases 4a (see quot. 1844) and to scare (also frighten) seven bells out of a person at seven adj. and n. Phrases 4b.]

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to beat (a person) black and blue1568

beswinge1568

paik1568

trounce1568

canvass1573

swaddle?1577

bebaste1582

besoop1589

bumfeage1589

dry-beat1589

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lamback1589

clapperclaw1590

thrash1593

belam1595

lam1595

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bumfeagle1598

belabour1600

tew1600

flesh-baste1611

dust1612

feeze1612

mill1612

verberate1614

bethumpa1616

rebuke1619

bemaul1620

tabor1624

maula1627

batterfang1630

dry-baste1630

lambaste1637

thunder-thump1637

cullis1639

dry-banga1640

nuddle1640

sauce1651

feak1652

cotton1654

fustigate1656

brush1665

squab1668

raddle1677

to tan (a person's) hide1679

slam1691

bebump1694

to give (a person) his load1694

fag1699

towel1705

to kick a person's butt1741

fum1790

devel1807

bray1808

to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813

mug1818

to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821

welt1823

hidea1825

slate1825

targe1825

wallop1825

pounce1827

to lay into1838

flake1841

muzzle1843

paste1846

looder1850

frail1851

snake1859

fettle1863

to do over1866

jacket1875

to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877

to take apart1880

splatter1881

to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884

to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886

to do up1887

to —— (the) hell out of1887

to beat — bells out of a person1890

soak1892

to punch out1893

stoush1893

to work over1903

to beat up1907

to punch up1907

cream1929

shellac1930

to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931

duff1943

clobber1944

to fill in1948

to bash up1954

to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976

to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983

beast1990

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1844 N.Y. Herald 13 Jan. I heard Linden, as he came out of the forecastle, say that he would knock ‘seven bells’ out of the mate.]

1890 Evening Tel. (Dundee) 6 Aug. He took off his coat and wanted Sorley to fight with him, threatening that he would ‘knock five bells out of him’.

1924 Country Life (Sydney) 4 July 16/2 The taxi-driver, recklessly tooting his motor horn, scared nine bells out of the baker's horse, and sent him careering madly up the street.

1999 Independent 10 Feb. (Wednesday Rev.) 10/5 Drummer Peter Nilsson..refused to take any solo limelight, but frequently beat six-dozen bells out of his kit.

2012 K. Swan Perfect Present xliii. 471 He'd knock ten bells out of me if he knew I was sleeping with his wife.

Draft additions March 2021

bell miner n. a honeyeater native to southeastern Australia, Manorina melanophrys, which has olive-green plumage and a tinkling bell-like call.

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1897 Australasian (Melbourne) 6 Feb. 276/3 In wet weather or dry, from sunrise to sunset, may be heard the incessant bell-like tinkling voices of scores of bell-miners.

1967 E. Huxley Their Shining Eldorado ix. 165 I heard the sweet call of bellbirds (the Bell-miner, one of the enormous honey-eater tribe).

2016 J. Alcock in I. J. Lovette & J. W. Fitzpatrick Handbk. Bird Biol. (ed. 3) ix. 348 (caption) Bell Miners (Manorina melanophrys) forage and breed in family groups.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	bell
释义	belln.¹ Brit. /bɛl/, U.S. /bɛl/ Forms: Old English–1600s belle, (Middle English bill), Middle English–1600s bel, 1500s– bell. Etymology: A common Low German word: Old English belle weak feminine = Middle Dutch and Middle Low German belle , Dutch bel (in Icelandic bjalla from Old English), not occurring in other Germanic languages; perhaps from same root as bell v.⁴ to make a loud noise, roar. The history of the transferred sense 4 is not quite certain. I. Properly. 1. A hollow body of cast metal, formed to ring, or emit a clear musical sound, by the sonorous vibration of its entire circumference, when struck by a clapper, hammer, or other appliance. The typical form, found in all large bells (and indicated by the expression bell-shaped), is that of an inverted deep cup with a recurving brim, which is struck by a ‘clapper’ or ‘tongue,’ usually suspended from the centre of the interior.Other forms, used only in small bells, are a section of a hollow sphere, struck by a hammer impelled by a spring as in the bell of a house-clock, a table bell, etc., and a hollow sphere containing an unattached or freely suspended solid metal ball which answers the purpose of the tongue.Bells of the regular form vary greatly in size and weight. a. The larger kinds are used for giving signals of various import (time, danger, etc.) to the inhabitants of a town or district, and especially in connection with public worship (cf. chime n.¹); the smaller kinds are used for similar purposes in a house (e.g. doorbell, dinner-bell, electric-bell). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] bella1000 sonnettec1400 clock1483 tan-tan1653 tintinnabule1834 a1000 Chart. Leofric in Cod. Dipl. IV. 275 He hæfð ðiderynn gedon..vii. uphangene bella. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 215 Boc oðer belle, calch oðer messe-ref. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 509 Me rong bellen, & vaste the ropes drou. c1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 2285 Quod the emperour, ‘By Goddis belle, Of that cas thou most me telle.’ ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iii. sig. Diiij In bedes and in belles, not vsed of the turkes. 1606 Returne from Pernassus ii. vi. sig. D3^v Then go to his meate when the Bell rings. 1692 S. Patrick Answer to Touchstone of Reformed Gospel 72 A man..to whom the Bell clinks just as he thinks. 1782 W. Cowper Verses by A. Selkirk iv The sound of the church-going bell. a1815 in G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 438 He put out his hand to pull the bell. 1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida I. x. 108 He's running..to answer the bell. b. Small bells are frequently used for decoration, e.g. on a horse's trappings, a falcon's leg, the cap of a fool or jester, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > small bell bellc1175 cocklebell1378 crier1467 tantony1567 jingle1615 campanel1653 ting-tang1681 tinkler1767 crotal1790 grelot1854 pellet bell1907 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 950 Tatt iudisskenn preost wass..Bihenngedd all wiþþ belless. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Judges viii. 21 The ournementis, and billis [a1425 bellis] with the whiche the neckis of kyngis chamels ben wonyd to be anourned. 1486 Bk. St. Albans D iij The bellis that yowre hawke shall wheer, looke..that thay be not to heuy. 1611 Bible (King James) Zech. xiv. 20 Vpon the bels of the horses, Holines Vnto the Lord. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iii. 73 As the Oxe hath his bow..and the Falcon her bels . View more context for this quotation a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) I. iii. ix. 129 I will not have a dog with a bell. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud vi. vii, in Maud & Other Poems 28 Often a man's own angry pride Is cap and bells for a fool. 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.iiij^v 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. 3. spec. a. A bell rung to tell the hours; the bell of a clock; whence the obsolete phrases of the bell, on the bell, at the bell = o'clock. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > [adverb] > o'clock of the clock1384 at (the) clockc1405 o'clock1419 of the bell1422 clock1629 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 1422 MS. at Hatfield Ho. In the morowe tide bitwene vj and vij of the belle died Kyng Charles. c1447 Eng. Chron. App. 117 Appon iij on the belle at aftrenone. 1448 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) 61 On tuysday..at iij. atte belle afternone. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxxxii. 322 This batayle endured fro ix. of y^e bell, tyll it was past hye none. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. ii. 45 The clocke hath strucken twelue vpon the bell . View more context for this quotation 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 5 The Bell strikes One. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair liv. 482 As the shrill-toned bell of the black marble study clock began to chime nine. b. Nautical. The bell which is struck on ship-board, every half hour, to indicate by the number of strokes the number of half-hours of the watch which have elapsed; a period of half-an-hour thus indicated. (See quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > signal marking the time > [noun] > bell, gun, etc. > ship's bell bell1836 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. ix. 131 It struck seven bells, and he accompanied Mr. Jolliffe on deck. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast iv. 8 At seven bells in the morning all hands were called aft. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 94 We say it is two bells, three bells, etc., meaning there are two or three half-hours past. The watch of four hours is eight bells. II. Transferred to bell-shaped objects. 4. A corolla shaped like a bell; hence in the name of various flowering plants, esp. of the genus Campanula, e.g. bluebell n., Canterbury bells n., harebell n.; dead men's bells (dialectal name of the Foxglove), heather-bell n., etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > petal > petals or corolla bella1616 foliation1672 wrapper1718 pavilion1731 corolla1753 wreath1760 corol1791 a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 89 In a Cowslips bell, I lie. View more context for this quotation 1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 24 in Justa Edouardo King Bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets. 1743 R. Blair Grave 15 Dew-drops on the Bells of Flow'rs. 1847 T. De Quincey Joan of Arc in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 185/1 Flower nor bud, bell nor blossom, would ever bloom for her. 5. Frequently applied to vessels bell-shaped, as a bell-glass, diving-bell, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > glass case case1600 bell1651 glass-bell1651 bell-glass1737 fernery1840 Wardian case1842 vivarium1853 terrarium1931 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > of specific shape scallop1401 shipc1410 friar1463 columbe1488 culver1500 bell1651 cornet1677 churn1747 tulip-glass1755 situla1804 nacelle1873 thyrse1876 tsun1958 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > submersible vessel diving-engine1601 diving-bella1684 submarine boat1713 bellc1715 diving-bladder1753 boat1802 diving-boat1802 bell-vessel1816 submarine1828 nautilus1875 submersible1900 bathysphere1930 bathyscaphe1947 mesoscaphe1955 1651 J. French Art Distillation iii. 68 The Bell must hang at such a distance from the other vessell. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Dict. in Compl. Gard'ner sig. Ai^v Bells, are large Glasses made in the form of Bells, to clap over tender Plants or such as are to be forced. c1715 Halley in Sat. Mag. 20 Apr. (1839) 147/1 The..cavity of the [diving] bell was kept..free from water. 6. Any object or portion of an object shaped like a bell; esp. in various technical uses: a. Architecture. ‘The naked vase or corbeille of the Corinthian or Composite capitals, round which the foliage and volutes are arranged.’ Gwilt. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > capital > parts of specific types of capital caulis1563 helix1563 vase1563 voluta1563 cyllerie1592 codd1601 cilery1611 roll1611 turning1631 pillow1664 volute1696 tambour1706 collarino1715 annulet1728 colarin1728 drum1728 caulicoles1815 intervolute1831 bolster1842 stalk1842 horn1847 bell1848 cauliculusa1878 1848 J. H. Parker Rickman's Styles Archit. Eng. (ed. 5) 33 The bell is set round with two rows of leaves, eight in each row. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. ix. 102 The sloping stone is called the Bell of the capital. b. The everted orifice of a trumpet or other wind instrument. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > [noun] > parts generally > end bell1806 bell end1826 1806 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (ed. 2) Bell of a Horn, the large, open part of the instrument, from which the sound immediately issues. 1856 M. C. Clarke tr. H. Berlioz Treat. Mod. Instrumentation 130 The narrower the opening left in the bell [of a horn], the..rougher the note. 1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz ix. 201 The players [of cornets] got that effect by inverting glass tumblers over the bells of the instruments. 1966 Crescendo Oct. 22/3 Sitting only three feet from the..bell of Jimmy Heath's tenor [saxophone]. c. The body of a helmet. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > main body of helmet bell1869 1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour iii. 55 The other variety,..has the bell of a more conical form. 1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour v. 77 Of figures..on the sides of the bell of the head-piece. d. Mechanics. (See quots. 1881, 1893.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > machine for loading or packing broken material bell1881 slusher1923 power loader1943 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [noun] > with specific shape sword1530 spider1860 arm1881 bell1881 Christmas tree1917 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 107 Bell and hopper. See Cup and cone. 1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I. Bell, the movable cap at the top of a modern blast-furnace, which is lifted to put in the charge of ore, etc. 1930 Engineering 2 May 589/1 10 per cent of the total gas made was lost owing to the use of single bells on the blast-furnaces. 1944 Gloss. Terms Gas Industry (B.S.I.) 26 Bell, the hollow cylinder closed at its upper end which forms the gas container. e. (See quot. 1858) Cf. bell-tent n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > store of weapons or equipment > [noun] > place for storing weapons armoury1440 arsenal1572 magazinea1599 small armoury1713 armamentary1727 place of arms1768 ammunition depot1799 expense magazine1839 bell1858 ammunition dump1918 weapon-pita1944 silo1958 1858 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India III. ix. i. 559 The bells, or small huts, where the native arms..were deposited. III. Phrases. 7. a. to bear the bell: to take the first place, to have foremost rank or position, to be the best. to bear or carry away the bell: to carry off the prize. The former phrase refers to the bell worn by the leading cow or sheep (cf. bellwether n.) of a drove or flock; the latter, perhaps, to a golden or silver bell sometimes given as the prize in races and other contests; but the two have been confused. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being the best > [verb (intransitive)] to take the bun1371 to bear the bellc1374 to have, bear, carry, strike the stroke1531 to take the cake (also cakes)1839 to take (also cop, win) the biscuit1880 to ring the bell1900 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win > carry off the prize to win the ringa1513 to bear or carry away the bell1594 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 149 And, let se which of yow shal bere the belle To speke of love aright? 1470 J. Hardyng Chron. lxxxi. xi At the last the Brytons bare the bell, And had the felde and all the victorye. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 113 Of alle the foles I can tell..Ye thre bere the bell. 1594 R. Barnfield Affectionate Shepheard ii. xxxix. sig. Di For pure white the Lilly beares the Bell. 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xiii. 215 Iulius Cæsar..bare away the bell (in respect of fortunatenesse) from all other captains of the world. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 52 True Merchants, they carry the bell away from all other nations. 1742 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 4) I. 295 A very heady Malt Liquor, which..carries the Bell, by having the Name of the best Drink far and near. 1773 Pennant's Tour N. Wales A little golden bell was the reward of victory in 1607 at the races near York, whence came the proverb for success of any kind, to bear the bell. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo x. 6 Venice the bell from every city bore. †b. Similarly, to deserve or lose the bell, to give the bell. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > cause (one) to be successful triumpha1571 to give the bell1600 to come off (also through, etc.) with flying colours1622 the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > be defeated or overthrown [verb (intransitive)] > be defeated or lose to have (also get) the worsec1275 leesec1300 lose1548 to deserve or lose the bell1600 to have the lower hand1693 to have the second best1708 to come off second best1777 skunk1867 to be dumped on1967 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win > carry off the prize > merit the prize to deserve or lose the bell1600 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xvii. lxix. 309 When in single fight he lost the bell. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. iv. §4. 25 The follie of the Romanes doth well deserue the Bell. 1686 W. Aglionby Painting Illustr. (new ed.) 278 Which gave him the Bell above all Modern Artists. c. to ring the bell: see ring v.¹ Phrases 1a(b). d. to ring a bell: see ring v.¹ Phrases 1c. e. to give (someone) a bell, to call (someone) by telephone, to ring up. Cf. tinkle n. 3. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > sound as signal [verb (transitive)] > call (someone) by telephone to give (someone) a bell1982 1982 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 23 July 785/2 ‘An audition.’..‘I understand…I'll set it up and give you a bell.’ 1985 Music Week 2 Feb. (Advt. section) 4 Give them a Bell on 402 3105. 1986 G. F. Newman Set Thief v. 58 I was going to give you a bell. But I thought it best to give the phone a miss. 8. by bell and book, book and bell (i.e. those used in the service of the mass): a frequent asseveration in the Middle Ages. to curse by bell, book, and candle: referring to a form of excommunication which closed with the words, ‘Doe to the book, quench the candle, ring the bell!’ Also used as summarizing the resources of the hierarchy against heretics, or the terrors of excommunication; and humorously, to indicate the accessories of a religious ceremony. ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 17110 Curced in kirc þan sal þai be wid candil, boke, and bell. c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 3023 So bus the do, by bel and boke. c1420 Anters Arth. iii That borne was in Burgoyne, be boke and by belle. 1611 L. Barry Ram-Alley ii. sig. D3 I haue a Priest will mumble vp a marriage, Without bell, booke, or candle. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. iii. 12 Bell, Booke, & Candle, shall not driue me back, When gold and siluer becks me to come on! View more context for this quotation 1680 G. Hickes Spirit of Popery 45 The Field-Preachers damned this Bond with Bell, Book, and Candle. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 155 Hold thy hand, on pain of bell, book, and candle. 9. With allusion to the fable of the mice (or rats) who proposed to hang a bell round the cat's neck, so as to be warned of its approach. See also bell the cat in bell v.⁵ ΚΠ 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. Prol. 168 Bugge a belle of brasse..And hangen it vp-on þe cattes hals; þanne here we mowen Where he ritt or rest. a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. A.v^v Loth to hang the bell Aboute the cattes necke. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. E I will hang the bell about the cats necke. a1633 Visct. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 14 Wishing some one would shew undaunted Valour, to tye the Bell about the Cats neck. 10. as sound or as clear as a bell; see sound adj., clear adj. Compounds C1. General relations. a. Simple attributive. bell-canopy n. bell-chamber n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > tower or steeple > [noun] > bell-tower > room within for bells sollarc1305 belfry1549 bell-loft1765 bell-chamber1848 1848 J. H. Parker Rickman's Styles Archit. Eng. (ed. 5) 153 Sound-holes..are not used in the bell-chamber. bell-chime n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of bell knellc961 ringOE bell-dreamc1175 ringingc1300 clinkingc1386 knellingc1440 ding-dong1611 tang1669 jangling1686 jow17.. steeple-music1732 dinging1767 bell-chimea1822 jowl1822 tintinnabulation1831 ring-a-ding1844 a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III vi, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 243/2 Like a crazed bell-chime, out of tune. bell-clapper n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > clapper clapper1379 swingle14.. bell-clapper1498 kneppelc1500 tongue1577 clap1608 clacker1869 jinglet1881 1498 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Dunstan's, Canterb. For makyng of new belclappers..xiijs. iiijd. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 14 Large Bell-clappers..and all thick strong Bars, &c. bell-cot n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > tower or steeple > [noun] > bell-tower > room within for bells > canopy within which bells hang bell-cot1859 1859 J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. IV. vii. 338 A bell-cot projecting from the face of the wall. bell-cote n. ΚΠ 1877 L. Jewitt Half-hours among Eng. Antiq. 175 The Sanctus Bell..hung in a small bell-cote at the apex of the gable. bell-loft n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > tower or steeple > [noun] > bell-tower > room within for bells sollarc1305 belfry1549 bell-loft1765 bell-chamber1848 1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 213 In the bell-loft at St. Bride's. bell-steeple n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > tower or steeple > [noun] > bell-tower bellhousea1000 clocher1354 belfryc1440 bell-tower1612 campanile1640 bell-gable1845 bell-steeple1847 belfry-tower1870 1847 Ld. Lindsay Sketches Hist. Christian Art I. 22 The round towers of Ireland..are bell-steeples. † bell stoke n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1522–4 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Dunstan's, Canterb. For mendyng of the bellstoke viijd. bell-toll n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of bell > large bell knoll1379 toll1452 knolling1480 tollinga1513 tonging1584 thief and reever bell1777 bell-toll1860 donga1882 tong1881 1860 T. L. Peacock Gryll Grange xxxiv, in Fraser's Mag. Dec. 714 On the dreary midnight air Rolled the deep bell toll. bell-tower n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > tower or steeple > [noun] > bell-tower bellhousea1000 clocher1354 belfryc1440 bell-tower1612 campanile1640 bell-gable1845 bell-steeple1847 belfry-tower1870 1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xxxv. 67/1 Whose Steeple or Bell-Tower being both beautifull and high. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 258 The bell-tower..becomes the culminating ornament of the whole exterior. b. Objective. bell-baptism n. ΚΠ 1872 H. T. Ellacombe Bells of Church v. 78 The ceremony of bell baptism exceeds in splendour and minutiæ the baptism of Christians. bell-bearer n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock > member of livestock > that carries a bell bell-bearer1607 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 239 Neither haue Goates a Captaine or Bell-bearer like vnto sheepe. bell-caster n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of bells bell-yetter1298 bell-maker1483 bell-founder1530 bell-melter1604 bell-caster1628 belleter1891 1628 in Earwaker E. Cheshire I. 107 note Going to enquire for the bellcaster. bell-casting n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making of other specific articles or materials > [noun] > bell-making bell-casting1872 bell-founding1872 1872 H. T. Ellacombe Bells of Church i. 3 I describe the modern process of bell casting. bell-hallower n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > blessing bells bell-hallower1549 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 5th Serm. sig. Pii Preachers, not Belhalowers. bell-maker n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of bells bell-yetter1298 bell-maker1483 bell-founder1530 bell-melter1604 bell-caster1628 belleter1891 1483 Cath. Angl. 27 A Belle maker, campanarius. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy v. 1589 Belmakers, bokebynders, brasiers fyn. c. Similative and parasynthetic. (a) bell-barrow n. [barrow n.¹ 3] ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > mound > of specific shape long barrow1724 round barrow1768 bell-barrow1812 bowl-barrow1812 disc barrow1871 horned cairn1877 ridge barrow1927 1743 W. Stukeley Abury ix. 41 Barrows with ditches round them. These are..generally of an elegantly turn'd bell-form.] 1812 R. C. Hoare Anc. Hist. S. Wilts. 21 Bell Barrow. This, from the elegance of its form, seems to have been a refinement on the Bowl Barrow: they abound in the neighbourhood of Stonehenge. 1928 O. G. S. Crawford & A. Keiller Wessex from Air iv. 13 Some Bell-barrows certainly belong to the very beginning of the period... The name is, of course, derived from the form. The mound is high, and is usually separated from the surrounding ditch by a narrow shelf or berm of natural soil. bell-beaker n. [beaker n. 1c] ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > beaker (Bronze Age) > specific bell-beaker1902 butt beaker1933 funnel-beaker1954 1902 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 17 390 The different class of beaker..is often called the ‘Bell-beaker’, from its caliciform or bell-shaped form. 1925 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization xix. 293 In Bavaria and Thuringia as elsewhere, the bell-beaker folk had used metal. 1967 Antiquaries Jrnl. 47 182 Crichel Down in Dorset..where one sherd of rusticated ware was found associated with small sherds of the Bell-Beaker class. bell-button n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > fastenings > button > types of hair-button1593 frog1635 bar-button1685 frost button1686 sleeve-button1686 berry-button1702 stud1715 pearl button1717 breast button1742 bell-button1775 shell button1789 red button1797 olivet1819 bullet-buttons1823 basket-button1836 all-over1838 top1852 olive1890 pearly1890 nail head1892 1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 7 The beaus..choose bell-buttons, to give a greater sound. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick vi. 36 He orders bell-buttons to his waistcoats. bell-cup n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > other specific shapes gripe's egg1391 gripe-shell15.. Priapus1613 man with the beard1631 delphin1638 belly-cup1673 spout cup1702 leaf cup1716 image mug1788 rhyton1820 toby1841 Sussex pig1846 bell-cupa1849 biberon1853 moustache cup1863 trembleuse cup1869 steeple-cup1909 thistle cup1947 a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 308 From gloomy iron bell-cups they drank the Saxon wine. bell-lamp n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > defined by shape bell-lamp1836 dome-light1956 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz The bell-lamp in the passage. bell-mouth n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > mouth or orifice > types of trumpet-mouth1835 bell-mouth1836 1836 F. Marryat Snarleyyow ii, in Metropolitan Jan. 36 The bell mouth of his speaking trumpet. 1896 Daily News 29 May 6/7 The huge brass bellmouth apparatus fixed on the prompt side of the opera proscenium is an electrophone. 1930 Engineering 4 Apr. 436/1 The lining at both extremities of the cutout ends, including the bell-mouth. 1958 J. S. Scott Dict. Civil Engin. 22 Bellmouth overflow, an overflow from a reservoir through a tower built up from the bed to the overflow level. 1967 Jane's Surface Skimmer Syst. 1967–8 106/1 There is a dam for solid water separation and four right angle turns before the air reaches the engine bellmouths. bell-net n. ΚΠ 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 9 The very sky..Dropping its bell-net down upon the sea. bell-shape n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > other types of helmet kettle-hat1380 salletc1440 knapscall1498 armet1507 bonnet?a1513 morion1547 burgonet1570 heaume1572 Bourguignonne1578 castle1587 casquet1611 cabasset1622 casquetel1796 knapscapa1802 comb-cap1825 tilting-helmet1846 pickelhaube1853 Waterloo helmet1853 bell-shape1869 schapska1894 pudding basin1925 1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour iii. 55 One is a helm of a deep bell shape. (b) bell-bored adj. ΚΠ 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 32 To know whether she be..taper, or belbored. bell-crowned adj. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [adjective] > hat > having specific types of crown copping-tanked1586 high-crowned1598 steeple-moulded1710 steeple-crowned1804 bell-crowned1823 1823 J. Doddridge Dialogue of Backwoodsman & Dandy in Logan (1868) Your bell crowned hat. 1854 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Central Amer. (1854) 18 A bell-crowned straw hat. 1910 J. Farnol Broad Highway i. xvi. 86 It's precious lucky for you as you are a-wearin' that there bell-crowned 'at! bell-fashioned adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > [adjective] > bell-shaped campanal1591 campanulate1668 bell-fashioned1698 bell-shaped1758 campaniform1758 tintinnabulate1873 1698 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 315 A large Bell-fashioned cinereous Calyx. bell-hooded adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [adjective] > having or not having chimney(s) > types of chimney or flue tunnelled1819 bell-hooded1883 1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 208/1 The smoke..escaped up a big bell-hooded flue. bell-mouthed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > having (spec. type of) mouth narrow-mouthed1563 large-mouthed1576 bell-mouthed1797 whale-mouthed1952 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > [adjective] > other qualities or attributes bell-mouthed1797 reverse1839 throttled1850 reversible1852 steam-jacketed1876 multi-cylindera1884 multiple-cylinder1888 four-cycle1909 multi-cylindered1909 knockless1928 throttleable1951 multi-fuel1957 stretched1960 multi-fuelled1964 1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 47 For the common engine..[cylinders] must be bell-mouthed ¼ of an inch on each side. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII lxxii. 91 His bell-mouthed goblet makes me feel quite..Dutch with thirst. 1946 Nature 2 Nov. 635/2 A bell-mouthed estuary. bell-nosed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > [adjective] > bell-shaped > at front bell-nosed1881 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 6 The barrel is..bell-nosed upon the outside. bell-shaped adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > appearance of plant > form of plant or that has parts of particular shape > [adjective] > having particular shape or shaped parts jagged1548 crowned1578 fingered1597 handed1597 hooded1597 unbranched1665 starred1693 bell-like1754 bell-shaped1758 campaniform1758 columniferous1785 gladiate1793 bottlebrush1798 antlereda1806 muscariform1839 sagittiferous1858 crested1861 unseptated1899 unseptate1900 palmiform1962 the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > [adjective] > bell-shaped campanal1591 campanulate1668 bell-fashioned1698 bell-shaped1758 campaniform1758 tintinnabulate1873 1758 Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 65 Campaniform or bell-shaped flowers. 1879 A. Bennett in Academy 32 The open bell-shaped mouth of the corolla. d. Instrumental with past participle. bell-hung adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > hung with ornament > specific trophied1622 bell-hung1870 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 145 The bell-hung bridle-rein. bell-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > appearance of plant > form of plant or that has parts of particular shape > [adjective] > having particular shape or shaped parts jagged1548 crowned1578 fingered1597 handed1597 hooded1597 unbranched1665 starred1693 bell-like1754 bell-shaped1758 campaniform1758 columniferous1785 gladiate1793 bottlebrush1798 antlereda1806 muscariform1839 sagittiferous1858 crested1861 unseptated1899 unseptate1900 palmiform1962 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [adjective] ringingc1400 tinging1591 tinnient1668 outringing1842 ringy1852 bell-like1865 1754 J. Hill Useful Family Herbal 295 The Flowers are..of a Bell-like Shape. 1865 F. Boyle Dyaks of Borneo 56 Sending forth his clear bell-like challenge. e. poetic. ΚΠ 1879 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 79 Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd. 1888 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 198 Bellbright bodies huddling out. 1889 W. B. Yeats Wanderings of Oisin iii. 38 I gazed on the bell-branch, sleep's forebear. 1919 W. de la Mare Flora 33 On the mirroring sands Bell-shrill the oyster-catchers. 1935 W. Empson Poems 24 Drowned under flounces and bell-calm of trees. 1945 W. de la Mare Burning-glass & Other Poems 75 Its secret bell-clear song. C2. Special combinations: See also bell-bird n., bell-flower n., bell-founder n., bell-glass n., bellhouse n., bellman n., bell-metal n., bellrags n., bell-ringer n., bell-rope n., bellwether n., bellwort n. bell-animalcules n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Infusoria > subclass Ciliata > [noun] > order Peritrichida > family Vorticellidae > member of vorticella1787 vorticel1835 vorticellid1865 bell-animalcules1875 peritrichan1888 peritrich1926 1875 Med. Trainer & Gaz. 8 May 495/1 A species of Amphileptus has been observed to swallow—or rather envelope—a stalked bell-animalcule (Vorticella). 1959 J. Clegg Freshwater Life Brit. Isles (ed. 2) v. 100 The Bell Animalcules, as the various species of Vorticella are popularly called, are found in dense masses at times. bell-animals n. English name for the Vorticellidæ, infusorial animalcules having a bell- or wine-glass-shaped body on a long flexible stalk. Thesaurus » Categories » bell-binder n. the large Wild Convolvulus or Bindweed. bell-bit n. ‘the bit of a bridle made in the form of a bell’ (Halliwell). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > bit kevela1300 barnaclea1382 bitc1385 molanc1400 bridle bit1438 snafflea1533 titup1537 bastonet?1561 cannon?1561 scatch1565 cannon bit1574 snaffle-bit1576 port mouth1589 watering snaffle1593 bell-bit1607 campanel1607 olive1607 pear-bit1607 olive-bit1611 port bit1662 neck-snaffle1686 curb-bit1688 masticador1717 Pelham1742 bridoon1744 slabbering-bit1753 hard and sharp1787 Weymouth1792 bridoon-bit1795 mameluke bit1826 Chiffney-bit1834 training bit1840 ring snaffle1850 gag-snaffle1856 segundo1860 half-moon bit1875 stiff-bit1875 twisted mouth1875 thorn-bit1886 Scamperdale1934 bit-mouth- 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 58 That byt which we call the..Campanell or Bell byt. bell-boat n. a boat with a bell freely suspended on it so as to ring as the vessel is moved by the waves, and thus give notice of danger. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > other vessels marking danger bar-boat1857 bell-boat1858 automatic pilot1897 1858 in Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 253 A Bell Boat has been placed just outside the bar. bell-bottomed adj. of trousers, having a considerable increase in width from below the knee to the bottom of the leg, giving a bell-shaped appearance; also, of an individual, esp. of a class accustomed to wear such trousers. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [adjective] > trousers > types of un-codpieced1580 canioned1607 braceless1859 bell-bottom1882 broad-beamed1883 kneed1887 bell-bottomed1891 fall-front1899 stagged1902 pegged1905 pedal pusher1912 pipestem1915 drainpipe1930 chino1943 anti-g1945 low-rise1948 cuffless1957 low-riding1958 hip-hugging1968 plus twos1977 1891 Argus (Melbourne) 5 Dec. 13/2 in E. E. Morris Austral Eng. (1898) The bell-bottomed ballottee. 1904 Daily Chron. 6 June 4/5 The crews were not less smart in..blue jackets and white bell-bottomed ducks. 1910 Westm. Gaz. 20 Jan. 2/3 A navvy with a three weeks' beard and bell-bottomed trousers. 1955 ‘N. Shute’ Requiem for Wren 83 A naval cutter manned by two Wrens in jerseys and bell-bottomed trousers. bell-bottoms n. (plural) bell-bottomed trousers. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose > flared sailor trousers1851 bell-bottoms1898 Oxford bags1925 Oxford trousers1925 Oxfords1929 sailor pants1931 bell1948 flare1964 loons1971 1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 220 They 'ad a crease right dahn 'em, an' bell bottoms. 1929 Daily News 10 Apr. 7/3 An official [of the Admiralty] said: ‘..Bell-bottoms are the Navy. Abolish them and you abolish the Navy.’ bell-bridle n. a bridle hung or adorned with bells. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle haltera1000 bridleOE brake1430 gorel1480 watering bridle1502 mollet-bridle1503 headgear1538 slipe1586 chase-halter1607 branks1657 bit-bridle1676 curb-bridle1677 chain-bridle1690 blind-halter1711 ox-riem1817 blind-bridle1833 bell-bridle1836 training halter1842 hackamore1850 Pelham bridle1875 quoiler1876 knee-halter1892 war bridle1962 side pull1965 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. vi. 147 Two fine mules with bell-bridles. bell-buoy n. a buoy with a bell. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > buoy > other types of buoy can-buoy1626 mast-buoy1675 nun buoy1703 breakwater1769 under-buoy1793 light buoy1822 bell-buoy1838 spar-buoy1860 gas buoy1865 whistling buoy1880 puppy1890 singing-buoy1894 gas float1895 1838 E. Flagg Far West in R. G. Thwaites Early Western Trav. (1908) XXVI. 52 The hated clang of the bell-boy [sic] was soon after heard..throughout the cabins. 1884 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xl. 315 The melancholy cadence of the bell-buoy. a1910 ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 60 A pale-faced, fat man huskily enveloped him with a raised, red fist, and the voice of a bell buoy. bell captain n. U.S. one who supervises a group of bellboys. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > who runs errands > boy > in an hotel or inn > supervisor bell captain1926 captain1942 1926 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 20 Nov. 315 His experienced demeanor among hotel porters and ticket agents and..Bell Captains. 1944 Reader's Digest Mar. 108 The coruscating bell captain commands an army of bell-boys. bell cord n. a cord to be pulled in order to ring a bell, spec. in a passenger vehicle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > bus or tram with specific number of decks > bell-cord for use of passengers bell cord1843 bell strap1922 1843 Knickerbocker 21 332 He found no bell-cord to pull. 1875 Chicago Tribune 2 July 8/1 When a half-drunken man has hold of the bell-cord instead of the strap to steady himself by. † bell-course n. Obsolete a race for a bell. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race wild-goose race1594 wild goose chase1597 bell-course1607 Palio1673 stake1696 paddock course1705 handicap1751 by-match1759 pony race1765 give and take plate1769 sweepstake1773 steeplechase1793 mile-heat1802 steeple race1809 welter1820 trotting-race1822 scurry1824 walkover1829 steeple hunt1831 set-to1840 sky race1840 flat race1848 trot1856 grind1857 feeler1858 nursery1860 waiting race1868 horse-trot1882 selling plate1888 flying milea1893 chase1894 flying handicap1894 prep1894 selling race1898 point-to-point1902 seller1922 shoo-in1928 daily double1930 bumper1946 selling chase1965 tiercé1981 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 12 I haue seene them vsed at our English Bell-courses. bell-crank n. a crank or species of lever adapted to communicate motion from one bell-wire to another lying at right angles to it; also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > lever > [noun] > others hammer1546 pawl1730 swinger1825 key1837 throw lever1866 sweep-rod1867 bell-crank1881 control lever1887 touch key1957 1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 110 On the lever [of Brocot's Perpetual Calendar].., is pivotted freely a bell-crank lever. bell-crater n. Ancient Greek History a bell-shaped bowl (see crater n. 1). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > bowl > specific types of bread bowl1622 lavel1658 tazza1824 mixing bowl1869 sebilla1875 presentation bowl1896 lekane1905 bell-crater1921 witch bowl1926 hanging-bowl1940 1921 Brit. Mus. Return 61 Bell-crater, late red-figure style. 1939 J. D. S. Pendlebury Archaeol. Crete vi. 309 The bell-kraters are deeper and less swelling. † bell-dream n. Obsolete the sound or music of a bell. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of bell knellc961 ringOE bell-dreamc1175 ringingc1300 clinkingc1386 knellingc1440 ding-dong1611 tang1669 jangling1686 jow17.. steeple-music1732 dinging1767 bell-chimea1822 jowl1822 tintinnabulation1831 ring-a-ding1844 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 922 Þe belle dræm bitacneþþ ȝuw..dræm þatt ȝuw birrþ herenn. bell-faced adj. (of a hammer) having the striking surface convex or rounded. bell-gable n. a gable or turret in which bells are hung. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > tower or steeple > [noun] > bell-tower bellhousea1000 clocher1354 belfryc1440 bell-tower1612 campanile1640 bell-gable1845 bell-steeple1847 belfry-tower1870 1845 Gloss. Goth. Arch. I. 54 In small churches and chapels that have no towers, there is very frequently a bell-gable or turret at the west end in which the bells are hung. bell-girdle n. a girdle or belt hung or adorned with bells. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > belt or sash > types of > other breechgirdlea1300 demiceint1483 demi-girdle1533 bracing-girdle1552 purse-girdle1559 yellow ribbon1651 burdash1707 body belt1823 subcingulum1824 zoster1824 bell-girdle1833 hip girdle1853 Sam Browne belt1878 belly-band1888 waspie1957 tie belt1964 1833 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. v, in Fraser's Mag. Dec. 669/1 Whether he..tower up in high headgear, from amid peaks, spangles and bell-girdles. bell-handle n. the handle by which a bell-rope or bell-wire is pulled. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > handle > of specific tool crankc1000 steal1377 pipe1397 pot-hook1397 shaft1530 fork-shafta1642 bell-handle1768 hasp1770 fettle1812 panhandle1890 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 21 A bell-handle hanging by your chimney side. bell-hanger n. one whose business it is to put up bells, bell-wires, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > others bell-hanger1540 powder monkey1670 articulator1798 universalist1801 sander1854 gummer?1881 shaver1885 wire-cutter1888 knacker1890 radiologist1905 groundhog1926 dogman1948 1540 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 160 John Payne, bellehanger. 1789 E. Sheridan Let. in Betsy Sheridan's Jrnl. (1986) viii. 180 I have scribbled thus far in the midst of the noise of Bell-hangers who are rectifying all negligence of our predecessors. 1791 in Harper's Mag. Mar. 1885. 534/2 P^d a bell hanger on a/c 5s. 1851 W. Irving in Life IV. 71 Plumbers and bellhangers [are] to attack the vitals of the house. bell-hanging n. bell-harp n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > other stringed instruments > [noun] > others sambucac1384 barbiton1545 alpharion1599 barbit1624 strumstrum1697 magadis1721 polychord1737 bumbassa1796 bell-harp1798 pipa1839 cavaquinho1863 nanga1864 bow1872 zither1877 ukeke1891 molo1912 pluriarc1923 Helicon- 1798 W. Hutton Life 17 One of them played upon the bell-harp. 1815 Encycl. Brit. X. 277/1 Bell-Harp, a musical instrument of the string kind, thus called from the common players on it swinging it about, as a bell on its basis. bell-heather n. the cross-leaved heath, Erica tetralix (Jamieson). bell-hop n. U.S. and Canadian a hotel page-boy (cf. bellboy n. 2). ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > who runs errands > boy > in an hotel or inn bellboy1861 hall-boy1884 bell-hopper1900 bell-hop1910 1910 G. Ade I knew him When 14 He is not a bell hop—the boys used to dress like that. 1919 D. L. Cady Rhymes Vermont Rural Life (1923) 99 The traveler saw no bellhops hop. 1922 Short Stories Feb. 21/1 I ran into a bell-hop who was always paging me. 1925 A. Loos Gentlemen prefer Blondes iii. 83 The boy friend of ours who is the bell hop, waked me up at ten o'clock. bell-hopper n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > who runs errands > boy > in an hotel or inn bellboy1861 hall-boy1884 bell-hopper1900 bell-hop1910 1900 G. Ade More Fables 5 When he got back to his Room the Bell-Hopper came round and asked him if he cared to Sit in a Quiet Game. bell-horn n. a horn which gives a bell-like tone. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > horn > [noun] > other horns earth horn?a1400 oliphantc1400 ruetc1400 buck-hornc1550 stock-horn1597 bell-horna1640 sea-cornet1653 dudeen?1790 carnyx1810 shofar1833 wonder-horn1864 handhorn1871 post-horn1881 a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. L13^v Rouse ye the lofty Stag, and with my bell-horne, Ring him a knell. bell-horse n. a horse wearing a bell or bells, esp. a horse adorned with bells, flowers, ribbons, etc. to celebrate the advent of May; the leading horse of a pack-train. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > pack-horse > leader of train of bell-horse1775 madrina1835 1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 337 But they [sc. the Choctaw Indians]..stole one of the bell horses. 1891 Harper's Mag. Nov. 890/1 The pack trains consisted of a ‘bell-horse’ and boy, and six horses following. bell-horse-day n. the first of May. bell instrument n. one for signalling by means of a bell. ΚΠ 1907 Westm. Gaz. 29 Oct. 9/1 He used the bell instrument for the Kilburn signal-box. bell-jar n. a bell-shaped glass jar used in chemical and physical laboratories. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > general vessels > glass > others urinalc1300 recipient1558 matrass1591 tritory1660 balloon1678 proof-glass1765 air-bell1782 transfer-jar1827 ignition tube1874 beaker1877 bell-jar1877 flask1878 steam-bomb1895 Nessler tube1906 oxygen bottle1932 1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography vi. 77 These bubbles may be..collected in the bell-jar. bell-less adj. destitute of a bell. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [adjective] > without bells bell-less1667 1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 87 The tops of Steeples Belless. bell-mare n. in herding mules on the prairies, a mare which wears a bell and acts as leader to the troop, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > [noun] > hybrid horse and ass > mule > female funnel1835 bell-mare1859 1859 R. B. Marcy Prairie Traveler iv. 101 A bell-mare, to which the mules soon become so attached that they will follow her wherever she goes. † bell-melter n. Obsolete a bell-founder, a founder. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of bells bell-yetter1298 bell-maker1483 bell-founder1530 bell-melter1604 bell-caster1628 belleter1891 1604 Supplic. Certaine Masse-priests §10 note Popes, Monkes, or Friars, the originall belmelters of Poperie. bell-moth n. a group of moths of the family Tortricidæ, named from their outline when at rest. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tortricidae > member of Tortrix1797 dial1819 leaf roller1830 subtriple spot1832 bell-moth1841 oak leaf roller1877 roller1877 red-banded leafroller1886 1841 E. Newman Familiar Introd. Hist. Insects iv. ii. 214 Bell-moths..with filiform antennæ. bell-mouth v. (transitive) to furnish with a bell-mouth. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > furnish with specific orifice nozzle1866 bell-mouth1880 1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 463/2 It is often desirable to bell-mouth the ends of pipes. bell-pepper n. a species of Capsicum ( C. grossum), so called from the shape of the fruit. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > capsicum > types of green pepper1565 case pepper1631 bird pepper1696 bell-pepper1707 goat peppera1726 bayberry1756 bird's eye pepper1829 bird's eye1842 pimiento1845 bird's eye chilli1851 paprika1851 pimento1885 datil1900 chile ancho1906 chile mulato1907 pasilla1929 jalapeño pepper1949 poblano1950 Serrano1952 chile poblano1972 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 241 Bell Pepper. The fruit is large..somewhat shaped like a bell. 1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 314 The Bell Pepper..a biennial..native of India. bell-polype n. = (bell-animalcules n.). bell-pull n. a cord or handle attached to a bell-wire, by pulling which the bell is rung. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > ringing of bells as signal > [noun] > bell rung by cord > bell-pull to pluck the ribbon1699 string1748 bell-pull1825 1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 29 Oct. 259 There was a parlour! Aye, and a carpet and bell-pull too! 1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 59 The bell-pull was also within reach: but she had an aversion to ringing the bell. 1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia II. ii. vi. 223 Beside the door..a row of some ten or twelve bell-pulls. 1865 Cornhill Mag. Feb. 167 A pair of large tassels with loops of cord-like bell-pulls. bell-punch n. (see quot. a1884). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > punches pointrel1476 punch1505 punk1670 puncher1681 dog-tooth1736 pommel1793 keypunch1850 bear1853 bell-punch1877 summary punch1934 1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) Gong-Punch, an instrument used by conductors [etc.]..a bell-punch. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 93/2 Bell Punch, a hand-punch, for perforating a ticket or trip slip. It secures the piece punched out, and rings a bell; in some instruments it also registers the fares collected. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 26 Sept. 2/2 Thanks to the bell-punch, the number of passengers carried can now be estimated with tolerable accuracy. bell-push n. the button that is pushed to ring an electric bell; also, a table bell to be rung in this way. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > ringing of bells as signal > [noun] > bell rung by cord > bell-push bell-push1884 1884 D. P. Heap Rep. Internat. Exhib. Electr. Paris 1881 26 This little battery..is contained in the ordinary bell-push. 1887 Cassell's Family Mag. 703/2 An indicating disc, which by its vibrations tells the bell push..of the person who has rung up. 1921 Blackwood's Mag. June 739/2 Pressing the bell-push to call the steward. Thesaurus » Categories » bell-rheometer n. a bell-shaped instrument for measuring the strength of an electric current. bell-roof n. a roof shaped like a bell. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > types of roof generally vaulta1387 plat-roofa1425 pend1454 faunsere1460 compassed roofa1552 terrace1572 sotie1578 crown1588 arch-roof1594 arch1609 under-roof1611 concameration1644 voltoa1660 hip roof1663 French roof1669 oversail1673 jerkinhead1703 mansard1704 curb-roof1733 shed roof1736 gable roof1759 gambrel roof1761 living roof1792 pent roof1794 span-roof1823 wagon-head1823 azotea1824 rafter roof1825 rooflet1825 wagon-vault1835 bell-roof1842 spire-roof1842 cradle-roof1845 packsaddle roof1845 open roof1847 umbrella roof1847 gambrel1848 packsaddle1848 compass-roof1849 saddleback1849 saddle roof1850 curbed roof1866 wagon-roof1866 saw-tooth roof1900 trough roof1905 skillion roof1911 north-light roof1923 shell roof1954 green roof1984 knee-roof- 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 933 Bell Roof,..is often called an ogee roof from its form. Thesaurus » Categories » bell-rose n. the daffodil (Somerset). bell-shade n. a bell-shaped light-shade. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > shade for shade1780 globe1796 moonshade1830 abat-jour1844 lampshade1850 bell-shade1890 lightshade1912 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 140 At one chair here some large bell-shades for lamps are being made. † bell-shaped parabola n. Obsolete a cubic parabola in which the point of the curve on its axis is not a stationary point, and which does not cross itself (i.e. the curve is roughly bell-shaped). bell-sheep n. Australian (see quot.). ΚΠ 1900 H. Lawson On Track (1945) xvi. 99 He times himself to get so many sheep out of the pen before the bell goes [for breakfast or dinner], and one more—the ‘bell-sheep’— as it is ringing. bell-signal n. a signal transmitted by the bell-telegraph; so bell-signalling (both disused). ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > semaphore > [noun] > apparatus > signalling by bell-signalling1905 society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > semaphore > [noun] > apparatus > signal transmitted by bell-signal1905 1905 Westm. Gaz. 19 Apr. 8/1 He announced the fact..by sending to him the block telegraph bell-signal ‘Vehicles running away on right line’. 1905 Daily Chron. 16 Nov. 7/3 Bell-signalling between torpedo craft and submarines in night-time. bell-skirt n. a bell-shaped skirt of a garment. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > skirt lapc897 quarter1501 dock1522 skirta1616 skirting1821 bell-skirt1907 1907 ‘O. Henry’ in Sunday Mag. (N.-Y. Tribune) 13 Jan. 6/2 The latest thing in suitings with side vents and bell skirt. 1940 W. Empson Gathering Storm 35 One swing of the bell skirt. bell-sleeve n. a long sleeve flared at the lower edge. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > types of poke1402 foresleeve1538 long sleeve1538 lumbard1542 puller out1543 maunch1550 hand sleeve1585 French sleeve1592 poke sleeve1592 puff1601 trunk sleeve1603 stock-sleeve1611 hoop-sleeve1614 puff sleevec1632 short sleeve1639 hanging sleeve1659 engageants1690 jockey-sleeve1692 pudding-sleeve1704 Amadis1814 gigot1824 leg of mutton1824 bishop sleeve1829 mutton-leg sleeve1830 balloon sleeve1837 gigot-sleeve1837 bag-sleeve1844 pagoda sleeve1850 mameluke sleeve1853 angel sleeve1859 elbow-sleeve1875 sling-sleeve1888 sleevelet1889 pagoda1890 bell-sleeve1892 kimono sleeve1919–20 dolman1934 1892 Daily News 26 Oct. 2/1 The ‘bell’ sleeves are turned back with white silk. 1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 15/1 Bell sleeve, second half 19th c. Close-fitting to mid-forearm and there expanding into a bell-shaped opening. bell-stone n. the part of a column which lies between the shaft and the abacus (cf. 6a). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > parts at junction of shaft and capital hypotrachelium1563 frieze1569 neck1624 neckstone?1662 gorgerin1664 collarino1688 cincture1696 gorge1706 colarin1728 collar1728 necking1798 neck moulding1818 bell-stone1851 neck-mould1851 throat1919 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. ix. 104 [The] treatment of the capital depends simply on the manner in which this bell stone is prepared. bell strap n. = bell cord n. (Funk, 1893). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > bus or tram with specific number of decks > bell-cord for use of passengers bell cord1843 bell strap1922 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 213 The conductor pulled the bellstrap. bell-string n. = bell-rope n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > other parts yokeOE stirrup1341 cod1379 bell-string1464 frame1474 stock1474 ear1484 poop1507 bell-wheel1529 skirt1555 guarder1583 imp1595 tab1607 jennet1615 pluck1637 bell-rope1638 cagea1640 cannon1668 stilt1672 canon1688 crown1688 sound-bow1688 belfry1753 furniture1756 sounding bow1756 earlet1833 brima1849 busk-board1851 headstock1851 sally hole1851 slider1871 mushroom head1872 sally beam1872 pit1874 tolling-lever1874 sally-pin1879 sally-pulley1901 sally-wheel1901 1464 in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 222 Le bell strynges..sunt defectiva. bell-team n. a team of horses adorned with bells. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > team of cartware1555 set1688 bell-team1824 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 199 Walking..by the side of his bell-team. bell-telegraph n. an instrument in which two bells are used to transmit a message, one indicating (by its tone) the movement of the needle to the right, the other, to the left (disused). ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > semaphore > [noun] > apparatus telegraph1793 tellograph1796 semaphore1815 semaphore signal1826 shutter-telegraph1859 bell-telegrapha1877 a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. Bell-telegraph,..invented by Sir Charles Bright. bell-tent n. a tent resembling a bell in shape. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > tent > [noun] > other types of tent tenticle1548 pal1656 marquee1690 gourbi1738 marquise1749 yurt1780 bell-tent1785 kibitka1799 shuldari1808 fly-tent1816 Swiss cottage1820 skin house1826 big tent1843 ridge tent1846 brush tent1862 dog tent1862 shelter tent1862 wall-tent1862 wedge tent1862 pup tent1863 A tent1863 tupik1864 tentlet1879 choom1889 pyramid1889 tortoise tent1890 safari tent1926 tent-sack1940 tent-trailer1963 tepee1970 trailer tent1971 Whillans box1971 1785 W. Roy in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 393 One of the pyramidal bell-tents..being placed at the station. bell-top n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 96 Bell-top, a term applied to the top of a quarter-gallery when the upper stool is hollowed away. bell-topper n. a ‘topper’, or top-hat, esp. one of old-fashioned type with a bell-shaped crown. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > tall > cylindrical > top hat stovepipe1851 bell-topper1858 top hat1881 tile-hat1937 1858 W. Kelly Life in Victoria I. xvi. 268 Bell-topper was the derisive name given by diggers to [an] old style hat, supposed to indicate the dandy swell. 1858 W. Kelly Life in Victoria I. xvi. 268 Merchants ventured to the Chamber of Commerce in the regular British ‘bell-topper’, some of the nattier going the length of sporting kid gloves. 1871 Fav. Reciter (Simpkin) 6 A bell-topper hat. 1888 B. L. Farjeon Miser Farebrother II. i. 3 On his head the shiniest of belltoppers. 1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King xxxi. 274 Sitting next to him was a ‘swell’ whose belltopper Kidman was quietly admiring. bell-trap n. a stench-trap resembling a bell in shape. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > sewer > trap > types of well trap1819 bell-trap1867 ball trap1873 siphon trapa1884 pot trap1884 1867 W. Papworth Gwilt's Encycl. Archit. (rev. ed.) ii. iii. 661 The usual iron bell trap, as supplied to a sink. bell-tubing n. tubing through which a bell-wire is passed in order to protect it. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > wire > tubing for wire bell-tubing1881 1881 Mechanic §1540. 692 It is usual..to provide for the passage of the bell wires from floor to floor by inserting bell-tubing in the walls. † bell-vessel n. Obsolete a diving-bell. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > submersible vessel diving-engine1601 diving-bella1684 submarine boat1713 bellc1715 diving-bladder1753 boat1802 diving-boat1802 bell-vessel1816 submarine1828 nautilus1875 submersible1900 bathysphere1930 bathyscaphe1947 mesoscaphe1955 1816 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 93/1 The bell-vessel was..lowered with Fisher and two other men..in 33 feet of water. bell-ware n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding fuel or manure > [noun] > seaweeds used as fuel or manure warec725 sea-warec1000 kelpa1387 orewood1586 ore1587 float-ore1602 vraic1610 woad of the seaa1613 oarweed1622 bell-ware1812 laminaria1848 1812 Agric. Surv. Caithn. 182 (Jam.) Bell-ware..is the kelp weed along the Scottish shores. bell-waver v. Scottish ‘to fluctuate, to be inconstant; applied to the mind’ (Jamieson). ΚΠ 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. vii. 202 I doubt me, his wits have gone a bell-wavering. bell-weight n. a weight shaped somewhat like a bell. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > equipment for weighing > [noun] > a weight > of specific shape bell-weight1744 1744 Philos. Trans. 1742–3 (Royal Soc.) 42 552 Pound Bell-Weights, and the single Pound flat Weight. bell-wheel n. the wheel to which an ordinary church-bell is attached, and by which it is swung. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > other parts yokeOE stirrup1341 cod1379 bell-string1464 frame1474 stock1474 ear1484 poop1507 bell-wheel1529 skirt1555 guarder1583 imp1595 tab1607 jennet1615 pluck1637 bell-rope1638 cagea1640 cannon1668 stilt1672 canon1688 crown1688 sound-bow1688 belfry1753 furniture1756 sounding bow1756 earlet1833 brima1849 busk-board1851 headstock1851 sally hole1851 slider1871 mushroom head1872 sally beam1872 pit1874 tolling-lever1874 sally-pin1879 sally-pulley1901 sally-wheel1901 1529 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Dunstan's, Canterb. For mendyng of the belwhele, xd. bell-wire n. the wire by which a bell-pull is connected with the bell. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > ringing of bells as signal > [noun] > bell rung by cord > bell-pull > wire by which bell-pull is attached bell-wire1760 1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 288 The Bell-wire, coming from the parlour below. 1865 N. Arnott Elements Physics (ed. 6) ii. 445 Bell-wires too slack in summer, may be of the proper length in winter. † bell-yetter n. Obsolete a bell-founder (lit. ‘bell-pourer’). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of bells bell-yetter1298 bell-maker1483 bell-founder1530 bell-melter1604 bell-caster1628 belleter1891 1298 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Wills Court of Husting (1889) I. 134 Belȝeterslane. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 30 Bellȝetare, campanarius. 1881 J. P. Briscoe Old Notts. 118 The bellyetters trade has now found its way..into the hands of a few great firms. Draft additions July 2009 Scottish. In plural with the. (The striking of) midnight on New Year's Eve. ΚΠ 1984 L. Lochhead Dreaming Frankenstein 66 Nae time eftir the Bells, and the New Year new in wi' the Usual crowd. 1992 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 26 Dec. 6 Whisky is not the only thing to drink before and after the bells, but it should have pride of place. 2005 B. Kirkpatrick Haggis, Hogmanay & Halloween 54 Many..will have hurried home from wherever they happened to be, anxious to be home with their closest family before the ‘bells’. Draft additions 1993 bell curve n. a graph of a normal (Gaussian) distribution; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > graph > showing normal distribution Quetelet1909 bell curve1970 1970 Balance Sheet Oct. 64/2 Research may be used to classify the effort into three basic methods:..(2) through use of the normal distribution hypothesis (bell curve) [etc.]. 1973 T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow i. 51 Exit doors painted beige, but with edges smudged browner in bell-curves of farewell by the generation of hands. 1978 J. M. Pasachoff & M. L. Kutner University Astron. iv. 96 If the errors are purely random, then this plot will look like a Gaussian distribution (also called a normal or bell curve). Draft additions 1993 bells and whistles n. [as on a fairground organ] colloquial attractive additional features or trimmings, esp. in Computing. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > [noun] > user interface > additional features bells and whistles1977 1977 Byte July 122/2 This simple circuit..even has a few outputs that can be used to provide user defined functions, such as enabling external devices or turning on bells and whistles. 1983 Austral. Personal Computer Dec. 82/3 1-2-3 has a full complement of the usual bells and whistles... Column widths can be varied, cells protected, screen split in two, models split, merged and printed. 1984 Sunday Times 26 Aug. 49/1 There are more than 600 microsystems on the market so it is hardly surprising that the manufacturers have taken to hanging a few bells and whistles on to their machines to get them noticed. Draft additions September 2013 colloquial. In plural. A pair of bell-bottomed trousers; cf. bell-bottomed adj. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose > flared sailor trousers1851 bell-bottoms1898 Oxford bags1925 Oxford trousers1925 Oxfords1929 sailor pants1931 bell1948 flare1964 loons1971 1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces Slang Bells, bell-bottomed trousers. (Lower-deck). 1970 New Yorker 21 Mar. 39 A pair of red velvet bells. 2008 Prince George (Brit. Columbia) Citizen (Nexis) 28 Oct. 28 There was a style of pants to fit the mould for any fashion fan, from tightly tapered to flared denim bells. Draft additions September 2013 bell-bottom adj. = bell-bottomed adj. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [adjective] > trousers > types of un-codpieced1580 canioned1607 braceless1859 bell-bottom1882 broad-beamed1883 kneed1887 bell-bottomed1891 fall-front1899 stagged1902 pegged1905 pedal pusher1912 pipestem1915 drainpipe1930 chino1943 anti-g1945 low-rise1948 cuffless1957 low-riding1958 hip-hugging1968 plus twos1977 1882 Rec. Fashion 11 Oct. 299/1 A certain class of customers are very partial to what is known as ‘bell bottom’ trousers, made from 16 to 17 inches at knee, and from 18½ to 19½in. at bottom. 1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 142 He looked a reg'lar dook. He'd a pair o' lavinder-coloured bell-bottom trowsis. 1948 B. Griffith Amer. Me i. ii. 46 They had brought with them..a sartorial style—ducktail haircuts and flared bell-bottom trousers—that made them distinctive. 2002 J. Goad Shit Magnet iii. 32 I'm wearing..two-tone purple-and-cream bell-bottom pants over argyle socks and..platform shoes, so I still look really cool. Draft additions March 2021 slang. to knock (also beat, kick, etc.) — bells out of (with — as a variable number): to beat or thrash severely. Also (similarly): to scare (also frighten) — bells out of: to terrify. [After to knock (also beat, kick, etc.) seven bells out of a person at seven adj. and n. Phrases 4a (see quot. 1844) and to scare (also frighten) seven bells out of a person at seven adj. and n. Phrases 4b.] ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person to-beatc893 threshOE bustc1225 to lay on or upon?c1225 berrya1250 to-bunea1250 touchc1330 arrayc1380 byfrapc1380 boxc1390 swinga1400 forbeatc1420 peal?a1425 routa1425 noddlea1450 forslinger1481 wipe1523 trima1529 baste1533 waulk1533 slip1535 peppera1550 bethwack1555 kembc1566 to beat (a person) black and blue1568 beswinge1568 paik1568 trounce1568 canvass1573 swaddle?1577 bebaste1582 besoop1589 bumfeage1589 dry-beat1589 feague1589 lamback1589 clapperclaw1590 thrash1593 belam1595 lam1595 beswaddle1598 bumfeagle1598 belabour1600 tew1600 flesh-baste1611 dust1612 feeze1612 mill1612 verberate1614 bethumpa1616 rebuke1619 bemaul1620 tabor1624 maula1627 batterfang1630 dry-baste1630 lambaste1637 thunder-thump1637 cullis1639 dry-banga1640 nuddle1640 sauce1651 feak1652 cotton1654 fustigate1656 brush1665 squab1668 raddle1677 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slam1691 bebump1694 to give (a person) his load1694 fag1699 towel1705 to kick a person's butt1741 fum1790 devel1807 bray1808 to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813 mug1818 to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821 welt1823 hidea1825 slate1825 targe1825 wallop1825 pounce1827 to lay into1838 flake1841 muzzle1843 paste1846 looder1850 frail1851 snake1859 fettle1863 to do over1866 jacket1875 to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877 to take apart1880 splatter1881 to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884 to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886 to do up1887 to —— (the) hell out of1887 to beat — bells out of a person1890 soak1892 to punch out1893 stoush1893 to work over1903 to beat up1907 to punch up1907 cream1929 shellac1930 to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931 duff1943 clobber1944 to fill in1948 to bash up1954 to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976 to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983 beast1990 becurry- fan- 1844 N.Y. Herald 13 Jan. I heard Linden, as he came out of the forecastle, say that he would knock ‘seven bells’ out of the mate.] 1890 Evening Tel. (Dundee) 6 Aug. He took off his coat and wanted Sorley to fight with him, threatening that he would ‘knock five bells out of him’. 1924 Country Life (Sydney) 4 July 16/2 The taxi-driver, recklessly tooting his motor horn, scared nine bells out of the baker's horse, and sent him careering madly up the street. 1999 Independent 10 Feb. (Wednesday Rev.) 10/5 Drummer Peter Nilsson..refused to take any solo limelight, but frequently beat six-dozen bells out of his kit. 2012 K. Swan Perfect Present xliii. 471 He'd knock ten bells out of me if he knew I was sleeping with his wife. Draft additions March 2021 bell miner n. a honeyeater native to southeastern Australia, Manorina melanophrys, which has olive-green plumage and a tinkling bell-like call. ΚΠ 1897 Australasian (Melbourne) 6 Feb. 276/3 In wet weather or dry, from sunrise to sunset, may be heard the incessant bell-like tinkling voices of scores of bell-miners. 1967 E. Huxley Their Shining Eldorado ix. 165 I heard the sweet call of bellbirds (the Bell-miner, one of the enormous honey-eater tribe). 2016 J. Alcock in I. J. Lovette & J. W. Fitzpatrick Handbk. Bird Biol. (ed. 3) ix. 348 (caption) Bell Miners (Manorina melanophrys) forage and breed in family groups. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021). belln.² Etymology: Belongs to bell v.² The actual history is uncertain. (It may be only a figurative use of bell n.¹, from its shape.) The strobile, cone, or catkin, containing the female flowers of the hop. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > hop-plant > parts of hopc1440 gut1573 bell1594 hop-boll1652 hop-vine1707 bine1727 hop-bind1733 bind1792 hop-bine1813 lupulin1823 bur1832 rough bine1846 pin1885 1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 48 in Jewell House His hops are more kindly, and the bels of them much larger. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Hop About August the Hop will begin to be in the Bell or Button. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2018). belln.³ Etymology: Etymology obscure: identical in meaning with modern Dutch bel, which, with the accompanying Middle Dutch verb bellen ‘to bubble up,’ is considered by Franck to have arisen out of Middle Dutch bulle ( < Latin bulla bubble in water) under the influence of wellen to well or boil up; but in presence of the existence of the verb and noun in English this seems doubtful. A bubble formed in a liquid. (The ordinary word for ‘bubble’ in modern Scottish use, whence occasional in English literature.) ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [noun] > a) bubble(s) scuma1250 boilounc1320 bubblea1350 burblec1350 blubberc1440 bell1483 blobc1540 bull1561 bleb1647 blab1656 air bubble1756 air-bell1806 gas bubble1809 sprot1846 mousse1863 1483 Cath. Angl. 27/1 A belle in þe water, bulla. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 197/2 Bell of snevyll at ones nose, rovpie. 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 88 Sometyme belles or bobles. 1576 J. Woolton Christian Man. sig. K.i Mans lyfe flyeth away..As the belles which bubble vp in the water. 1743 J. Davidson tr. Virgil Æneid vii. 203 In Frisky Bells the Liquors dance. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 62 The twinkling of a fin, the rising of an air-bell. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton vi. 75 Bells of air in a champagne glass. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). belln.⁴ Etymology: < bell v.⁴ The cry of a stag or buck at rutting time. [The first quot. is possibly the verb.] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > sound made by bell1510 1510 Inscr. Wharncliffe Lodge, Sheffield For his plesor to here the Hartes bel. 1862 C. P. Collyns Notes on Chase of Wild Red Deer iii What I had heard was the ‘bell’ of the stag. 1865 F. Boyle Dyaks of Borneo 56 Few people in England know the melody of a wild buck's bell. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021). Belln.⁵ Brit. /bɛl/, U.S. /bɛl/ Etymology: < the name of the North American Bell System or Telephone Company (from the surname of Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), Scots-born American inventor of the telephone), part of AT&T and before divestiture in 1984 the major U.S. telephone company; compare auntie n. 1b. 1. Ma Bell n. a familiar name for the Bell System (see quot. 1947), originally applied somewhat wryly by its employees; similarly Mother Bell, Old Ma Bell. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > [noun] > system Ma Bell1925 1925 Jrnl. Electr. Workers & Operators Sept. 726/1 ‘Old Ma Bell’ has put a great deal of strength into her working rules, but from a company standpoint only. 1935 Jrnl. Electr. Workers & Operators Nov. 495/3 Ma Bell has been perfectly lovely to her employees. She has a pension plan with disability and death benefits that gives them economic security, even though their wages don't. 1940 P. D. Stong If School Keeps iv. 37 He had plenty of money and a job wherever Ma Bell—the Bell Telephone Company—had an office. 1947 Sat. Evening Post 10 May 16/1 [Bell Telephone Laboratories] is apparently interested in their every waking and sleeping hour—a maternal solicitude which is largely responsible for the title of Ma Bell. 1960 Business Week 8 Oct. 98/1 This year Mother Bell has really lived up to her name; she's given birth to a whole brood of new telephonic devices for the home. 1962 Look 29 Aug. 22/1 Sixty-four million [telephones] belong to the vast Bell System owned by the $24 billion American Telephone and Telegraph Company, known to its two million stockholders as AT&T, to its 781,000 employees as ‘Ma Bell’ and to at least one U.S. senator as ‘the greatest monopoly in the history of the earth’. 1973 Fortune Feb. 130/3 As it has turned out, the quality of some phone lines is often below what Ma Bell promised. 1980 Forbes 1 Sept. 6/3 Mother Bell is stepping up its efforts to keep foreign traffic humming without becoming a burden on the expense account. 1987 L. D. Estleman Lady Yesterday xvii. 123 You can still find it in the Yellow Pages... Ma Bell knows. 2. Baby Bell n. any of the subsidiary regional U.S. telephone companies after divestiture. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > [noun] > company AT&T1898 Baby Bell1980 1980 Business Week 26 May 110/2 The computer industry has already started to call the prospective AT & T subsidiary ‘Baby Bell’, anticipating that it will be a powerful clone of its mother. 2005 Wall St. Jrnl. 25 Apr. (Central ed.) r4/2 Although a handful of companies are offering IPTV services overseas and in some rural U.S. areas, to date none of the Baby Bells' offerings have any subscribers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † bellv.¹ Brit. /bɛl/, U.S. /bɛl/ Forms: past participle bollen. Etymology: Of doubtful origin; apparently representing Old English belgan , past participle bolgen to swell, be proud or angry = Old High German belgan to swell; the total loss of the guttural presents difficulties, but occurs also in Middle English boln-e(n , < Old Norse bolgna , Danish bolne to swell. Compare also bolled adj.¹ Obsolete. a. intransitive. To swell up (like a boil). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > swell [verb (intransitive)] swellOE bell?c1225 boll1362 risea1398 blast1578 about1725 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 207 Heorte to bollen & iheouen ase hul... An bleddre ibollen of wint. 1664 in S. Pepys Diary 31 Dec. (1971) V. 362 [Charm against a thorn] Jesus..Was pricked both with nail and thorn; It neither wealed, nor belled, rankled, nor boned. 1664 in S. Pepys Diary 31 Dec. (1971) V. 362 [Another] And he was pricked with a thorn; And it did neither bell, nor swell. b. figurative. To be puffed up or proud. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > swelling or inflation with pride > swell with pride [verb (intransitive)] bolnec1375 bellc1384 efflate1634 swell1868 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Tim. iii. 4 Men schulen be louynge hem silf, coueitous..bollun with proude thouȝtis. c1450 Compl. Lover's Life 101 Hyt wolde aswage Bollyn hertes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bellv.² Etymology: Compare bell n.², from which the verb is probably formed. intransitive. Of hops: To be, begin to be, in bell. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [verb (intransitive)] > produce hops or be in bell (of hop-plant) bell1574 hop1848 1574 R. Scot Perfite Platf. of Hoppe Garden (1578) 33 At Saint Margarets daye Hoppes blowe, and at Lammas they bell. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 150 (margin) When Hops Blow, Bell, and Ripen. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Belling Hops blow towards the end of July, and bell the latter end of August. 1819 A. Rees Cycl. IV Belling of hops, denotes their opening and expanding to their customary shape. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2018). bellv.³ Etymology: This goes with bell n.³, being identical with Middle Dutch bellen to bubble up, as the noun is with modern Dutch bel bubble. Obsolete exc. dialect. intransitive. To bubble. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > effervesce [verb (intransitive)] burble1303 blubberc1400 bubblea1475 buller1535 seethe1535 bell1598 huff1707 wobble1725 effervesce1784 sotter1834 blob1855 upbubble1865 petillate1942 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Vena di fontana..the belling or rising vp of water out of a spring. 1822 J. Hogg Three Perils of Man II. 44 The blood bells through. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021). bellv.⁴ Brit. /bɛl/, U.S. /bɛl/ Forms: Also Middle English belle, 1500s bel, beale, 1800s dialect beal. Etymology: Old English bellan strong verb, to roar, bark, bellow = Old High German bellan , modern German bellen to bark; compare Old Norse belja to bellow. Compare bellow v. 1. intransitive. To bellow, roar, make a loud noise. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (intransitive)] > roar or bellow roarOE bellOE yellOE romya1325 droun1340 bellow1486 shouta1500 whurl1530 rout1554 fream1575 brill1863 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)] > roar or bellow bellOE roarOE berec1225 routc1300 romya1325 lowa1382 roungec1390 roupa1425 din1508 roust1513 hurl1530 bellow1603 belvea1794 boo-hoo1825 OE Riddle 40 106 Mara ic eom ond fættra þonne amæsted swin, bearg bellende, þe on bocwuda, won wrotende wynnum lifde. a1300 W. de Biblesworth in Promptorium Parvulorum 30 (note) Tor torreye..bole belleth. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1891 Þe werwolf..went to him euene, bellyng as a bole. c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame 1803 He gan to blasen out a soun, As loude as belleth winde in Hell. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 30 Bellyn, or lowyn, as nette, mugio. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Rii/1 To Beale, boare. 1589 R. Robinson Golden Mirrour sig. B.2 Which rored and beld, in th' eares of some. 1872 R. Browning Fifine lxxv. 27 You acted part so well, went all fours upon earth..brayed, belled. 2. spec. of the voice of deer in rutting time. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Cervidae (deer) > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound bell1486 1486 Bk. St. Albans E v a Iche Roobucke certayne bellis by kynde. 1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xiv. 177 You shall say, a Roe Belleth. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 113 When he [sc. the stag] cries, he is said to bell. 1808 W. Scott Marmion iv. xv. 201 The wild buck bells from ferny brake. 1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. i. x. §8. 133 We start them [the hinds], and they go on belling. 3. transitive. To utter loudly, to bellow forth. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)] > roar or bellow roarc1450 lowa1547 bellow1583 bell1596 rebellow?1611 rout1807 1596 L. B. in E. Spenser Astrophel sig. H2^v Their leaders bell their bleating tunes In dolefull sound. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. viii. 155 Bell us forth deep the authoritative bay. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bellv.⁵ Etymology: < bell n.¹ 1. transitive. To furnish with a bell. to bell the cat: to hang a bell round the cat's neck, according to the Fable (see bell n.¹ 9), and esp. a. to perform personally this hazardous feat, to undertake a perilous part or be the ring-leader in any movement.In the latter use, there is immediate reference to the story or legend, related by Lindsay of Pitscottie, that when certain of the Scottish barons formed a secret conspiracy to put down the obnoxious favourites of James III. in 1482, a moment of grave suspense followed the inquiry ‘Who would undertake to enter the royal presence and seize the victims?’ which was terminated by the exclamation of Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, ‘I will bell the cat,’ whence his historical appellation of ‘Archibald Bell-the-cat.’ ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > valour > deed of valour > perform a hazardous feat personally [verb] to bell the cat1762 1762 J. Man in G. Buchanan Rerum Scoticarum Hist. xii. 349 (note) Earl Archbald hearing the parable answered sadly, I shall bell the cat, meaning Cochrane, the great and terrible minion. 1791 I. D'Israeli Curiosities Lit. (1858) 169/2 He would be glad to see who would bell the cat, alluding to the fable. 1840 T. Arnold Life & Corr. (1844) II. ix. 186 I was willing to bell the cat, hoping that some who were able might take up what I had begun. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. xii. 232 As nobody was afraid of him, there was no difficulty in finding the man to bell the cat. b. To venture to grapple or contend with (a dangerous opponent). Scottish. ΚΠ 1722 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. II. 384 (Jam.) How little justice..poor simple country people, who could not bell the cat with them, had to look for. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed Introd., in Tales Crusaders I. p. xx It has fallen on me, as we Scotsmen say, to bell-the-cat with you. 2. a. transitive. To cause to swell or bulge out. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > flare at extremity [verb (transitive)] flare1857 bell1870 1870 Eng. Mech. 11 Feb. 535/2 He must bell them [tubes] out a little. b. intransitive with out. To spread out like the mouth of a bell. So belled-out adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > flare at extremity [verb (intransitive)] flanch1776 flange1820 flare1834 bell1922 1922 Blackwood's Mag. June 731/2 The skirt belled out like an inverted campanula bloom. 1959 New Scientist 11 June 1291/1 Shafts can be dug, ‘belled out’ at the base to get a larger load bearing area. 1959 New Scientist 11 June 1291/2 A concrete cylinder with a ‘belled out’ foot. 3. nonce-use. ΚΠ 1863 C. Dickens Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings i, in All Year Round (Extra Christmas No.) 3 Dec. 3/1 They [sc. servant girls] get bell'd off their legs [i.e. ‘run off their legs’ in answering bells]. 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