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 (n.) A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved. |
Bell (n.) Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower. |
Bell (n.) That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding |
Bell (n.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time |
Bell (v. t.) To put a bell upon |
Bell (v. t.) To make bell-mouthed |
Bell (v. i.) To develop bells or corollas |
Bell (v. t.) To utter by bellowing. |
Bell (v. i.) To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time |
Bell animalcule () An infusorian of the family Vorticellidae, common in fresh-water ponds. |
Bell bearer () A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax. |
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-faced (a.) Having the striking surface convex |
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 |
Bell metal () A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin |
Bell-mouthed (a.) Expanding at the mouth |
Bell pepper () A species of Capsicum, or Guinea pepper (C. annuum). It is the red pepper of the gardens. |
Bell-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a wide-mouthed bell |
Commons (n. pl.) The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility |
Commons (n. pl.) The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities. |
Commons (n. pl.) Provisions |
Commons (n. pl.) A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally |
Commons (n. pl.) A common |
Division (n.) The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided |
Division (n.) That which divides or keeps apart |
Division (n.) The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body |
Division (n.) Disunion |
Division (n.) Difference of condition |
Division (n.) Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote. |
Division (n.) The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another |
Division (n.) The separation of a genus into its constituent species. |
Division (n.) Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer. |
Division (n.) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion. |
Division (n.) One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs. |
Division (n.) One of the groups into which a fleet is divided. |
Division (n.) A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable. |
Division (n.) The distribution of a discourse into parts |
Division (n.) A grade or rank in classification |
Dumb-bell (n.) A weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle |
House (n.) A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind |
House (n.) Household affairs |
House (n.) Those who dwell in the same house |
House (n.) A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred |
House (n.) One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature |
House (n.) A firm, or commercial establishment. |
House (n.) A public house |
House (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours. |
House (n.) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. |
House (n.) An audience |
bell ringer bull's eye mark home run | something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal, the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer, scored a bull's eye, hit the mark, the president's speech was a home run |
division | the act or process of dividing |
word division hyphenation | division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page |
division partition partitioning segmentation sectionalization sectionalisation | the act of dividing or partitioning, separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart |
house | play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults, the children were playing house |
bell ringing carillon carillon playing | playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower |
painting house painting | the occupation of a house painter, house painting was the only craft he knew |
division | an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication, the quotient of two numbers is computed |
long division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps are indicated in detail |
short division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps is performed without writing them out |
house arrest | confinement to your own home |
Monmouth Court House Battle of Monmouth Court House Battle of Monmouth | a pitched battle in New Jersey during the American Revolution () that ended with the withdrawal of British forces |
division Archaebacteria | in some classifications considered a kingdom |
division Eubacteria | oneelled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella |
Cyanophyta division Cyanophyta | prokaryotic organisms sometimes considered a class or phylum or subkingdom, coextensive with the Cyanophyceae: cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) |
Schizophyta division Schizophyta | former term for the Cyanophyta |
Protista division Protista | eukaryotic oneelled living organisms distinct from multicellular plants and animals: protozoa, slime molds, and eukaryotic algae |
Heterokontophyta division Heterokontophyta | algae having chlorophyll a and usually c, and flagella of unequal lengths, terminology supersedes Chrysophyta in some classifications |
Chrysophyta division Chrysophyta | mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment, yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta |
Phaeophyta division Phaeophyta | coextensive with class Phaeophyceae, in some classifications subsumed in the division Heterokontophyta |
Euglenophyta division Euglenophyta | free-swimming flagellate algae |
Chlorophyta division Chlorophyta | large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls, classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Charophyceae, obviously ancestral to land plants |
Rhodophyta division Rhodophyta | lower plants, mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae |
house finch linnet Carpodacus mexicanus | small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico |
English sparrow house sparrow Passer domesticus | small hardy brown-and-grey bird native to Europe |
currawong bell magpie | bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call |
house wren Troglodytes aedon | common American wren that nests around houses |
house martin Delichon urbica | common small European martin that builds nests under the eaves of houses |
tailed frog bell toad ribbed toad tailed toad Ascaphus trui | western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ |
Cynodontia division Cynodontia | a division of the order Therapsida from the Triassic period comprising small carnivorous tetrapod reptiles often with mammal-like teeth |
Dicynodontia division Dicynodontia | a division of Therapsida |
milk snake house snake milk adder checkered adder Lampropeltis triangulum | nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot, southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes |
house centipede Scutigera coleoptrata | long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars |
domestic cat house cat Felis domesticus Felis catus | any domesticated member of the genus Felis |
housefly house fly Musca domestica | common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases |
European house cricket Acheta domestica | lives in human dwellings, naturalized in parts of America |
house mouse Mus musculus | brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide |
apartment building apartment house | a building that is divided into apartments |
apiary bee house | a shed containing a number of beehives |
beach house | a house built on or near a beach |
c Bedlam booby hatch crazy house cuckoo's nest funny farm funny house loony bin madhouse nut house nuthouse sanatorium snake pit | pejorative terms for an insane asylum |
bell | a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck |
bell | the flared opening of a tubular device |
bell arch | a round arch resting on corbels |
bellbottom trousers bell-bottoms bellbottom pants | trousers with legs that flare, worn by sailors, absurdly wide hems were fashionable in the s |
bell cote bell cot | a small shelter for bells, has a gable or shed roof |
bell deck | a floor under the bells of an open belfry |
bell foundry | a foundry where bells are cast |
bell gable | an extension of a gable that serves as a bell cote |
bell jar bell glass | a bell-shaped glass cover used to protect and display delicate objects or to cover scientific apparatus or to contain gases |