Barbellate :: Barbellate (a.) Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point..

Barbellulate :: Barbellulate (a.) Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.

Bell :: Bell (n.) A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck..

Bell :: Bell (n.) A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.

Bell :: Bell (n.) Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower..

Bell :: Bell (n.) That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital..

Bell :: Bell (n.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.

Bell :: Bell (v. t.) To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat..

Bell :: Bell (v. t.) To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube..

Bell :: Bell (v. i.) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell..

Bell :: Bell (v. t.) To utter by bellowing.

Bell :: Bell (v. i.) To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar..

Bell Animalcule :: Bell animalcule () An infusorian of the family Vorticellidae, common in fresh-water ponds..

Bell Bearer :: Bell bearer () A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax..

Bell Crank :: Bell crank () A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery..

Bell Jar :: Bell jar () A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view..

Bell Metal :: Bell metal () A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells..

Bell Pepper :: Bell pepper () A species of Capsicum, or Guinea pepper (C. annuum). It is the red pepper of the gardens..

Bell-faced :: Bell-faced (a.) Having the striking surface convex; -- said of hammers.

Bell-mouthed :: Bell-mouthed (a.) Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun..

Bell-shaped :: Bell-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a wide-mouthed bell; campanulate.

Belladonna :: Belladonna (n.) An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade..

Belladonna :: Belladonna (n.) A species of Amaryllis (A. belladonna); the belladonna lily.

Bellbird :: Bellbird (n.) A South American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and family Cotingidae, of several species; the campanero..

Bellbird :: Bellbird (n.) The Myzantha melanophrys of Australia.

Belle :: Belle (n.) A young lady of superior beauty and attractions; a handsome lady, or one who attracts notice in society; a fair lady..

Belle-lettrist :: Belle-lettrist (n.) One versed in belles-lettres.

Belled :: Belled (imp. & p. p.) of Bel.

Belled :: Belled (a.) Hung with a bell or bells.

Bellerophon :: Bellerophon (n.) A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age..

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