bell

bell has 21 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.
• n.. Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.
• 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.
• n.. The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.
• v. t.. To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.
• v. t.. To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.
• v. i.. To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.
• v. t.. To utter by bellowing.
• v. i.. To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.
• n.. a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
• n.. the flared opening of a tubular device