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Look up: Bell

  1. Bell
    Often used as ritual tools. They can be used to invoke directional energies, to ring in the sunrise on a Sabbat, or to frighten away faeries and baneful spirits.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  2. Bell
    Bell Bottomed TrousersThe uniform trousers of a seaman of height about 5ft 10ins measure 25 inches round the bottom. It is said that the practice of making sailors' trousers very full arose from the days when the men made their own clothes, when they found it easier and less wasteful of mater...
    Found on http://www.britishempire.co.uk/glossary/

  3. bell
    [n] - (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship`s bell 2. [n] - the shape of a bell 3. [n] - English painter 4. [n] - American inventor of the telephone (1847-1922) 5. [n] - the sound of a bell 6. [n] - the flared opening o...
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Bell
    A smooth sided large stone, shaped like a bell, which could fall from the roof without warning.
    Found on http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/Glossary

  5. Bell
    Bell: 1. Bell's palsy. 2. Bell, Charles.
    Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.

  6. bell
    A sound-emitting metal device which rings when struck by a clapper or hammer.A traditional bell is a hollow body of cast metal in the form of an inverted deep cup.Used aboard ship as a means of announcing time at regular intervals,as a signal when the ship is anchored in a fog,or as an alarm in emer...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  7. Bell
    Bell noun [ Anglo-Saxon belle , from bellan to bellow. See Bellow .] 1. 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 be...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/34

  8. Bell
    Bell transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Belled ; present participle & verbal noun Belling .] To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat. 2. To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.
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  9. Bell
    Bell intransitive verb To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/34

  10. Bell
    Bell transitive verb [ Anglo-Saxon bellan . See Bellow .] To utter by bellowing. [ Obsolete]
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/34

  11. Bell
    Bell intransitive verb To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar. « As loud as belleth wind in hell. Chaucer. » « The wild buck bells from ferny brake. Sir W. Scott. »
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/34

  12. bell
    1. 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. ... Bells have been made of various metals, but the best have always been, as now, of an alloy of copper and tin. The Liberty Bell, ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  13. bell
    toll noun the sound of a bell being struck; `saved by the bell`; `she heard the distant toll of church bells`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  14. bell
    noun a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
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  15. bell
    ship`s bell noun (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship`s bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o`clock, either a.m. or p.m.
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  16. bell
    bell shape noun the shape of a bell
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  17. Bell
    Alexander Bell noun United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  18. bell
    verb attach a bell to; `bell cows`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  19. Bell
    Alexander Melville Bell noun a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  20. Bell
    Signal on a stock exchange to indicate the open and close of trading.
    Found on http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg

  21. 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. • (v. i.) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bel...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  22. Bell
    (from the article `typography`) ...and functional. Among these types were Garamond, based upon a 17th-century French letter (see above); Bembo, after an Aldine roman; Centaur, an ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/43

  23. bell
    (from the article `sound`) ...is the reason why the musical instruments that have developed over the past millennium of Western history are limited to those with either ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/43

  24. bell
    hollow vessel usually of metal, but sometimes of horn, wood, glass, or clay, struck near the rim by an interior clapper or exterior hammer or mallet ... [13 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/43

  25. Bell
    Bell is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Bell` From Old English. Bell doesn`t appear In 2007`s top-1000 name list.The last time Bell appeared In the top-1000 was 98 years ago, In 1910. It ranked #584 In that year. . 1880 was a `top year` for the name Bell. (Based on 128 years of ...
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Bel



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11 February 2012

This day in history:
On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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