A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
(architecture) The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
(intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
Esimerkit
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
HEAR the sledges with the bells —
I’ll give you a bell later.
Referee Steve Smoger was an almost invisible presence in the ring as both men went at it, although he did have a word with Froch when he landed with a shot after the bell at the end of the eighth.
In a cowslip's bell I lie.
Who will bell the cat?
to bell a tube
"Vinny, you tosser, it's Keith. I thought you were back today. I'm in town. Bell us on the mobile.
Hops bell.
This animal is said to harbour in the place where he resides. When he cries, he is said to bell; the print of his hoof is called the slot; his tail is called the single; his excrement the fumet; his horns are called his head [...].
As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled / Once, twice and again!
Then, incredibly, a rutting stag belled by the trunks.