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The Cucubalus behen, or bladder campion, now called Silene inflata.

A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.

Having the shape of a widemouthed bell; campanulate.

th American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and family Cotingidæ, of several species; the campanero.

A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its bell- shaped flowers.

as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. Bellows camera, in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows. -- Hydrostatic bellows. See Hydrostatic. -- A pair of bellows, the ordinary household instrument for blowing fires, consisting of two…

To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to. [Obs.] Camden.

. To bend the brow, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or in anger; to scowl; to frown. Camden.

on European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor. Watts.

land to the Prince and Princess of Orange in 1688, and enacted in Parliament after they became king and queen. In America, a bill or declaration of rights is prefixed to most of the constitutions of the several States. -- Bill of sale, a formal instrument for the conveyance or transfer of goods and chattels. -- Bill…

Having two feet; two-footed. By which the man, when heavenly life was ceased, Became a helpless, naked, biped beast. Byrom.

Fig.: A girl; a maiden. And by my word! the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry. Campbell. Arabian bird, the phenix. -- Bird of Jove, the eagle. -- Bird of Juno, the peacock. -- Bird louse (Zoöl.), a wingless insect of the group Mallophaga, of which the genera and species are very numerous and mostly parasitic upon…

ich bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish. "Great barkers are no biters." Camden.

A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.

An encampment for the night without tents or covering.

s shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern.

Without color; pale; pallid. [Obs.] When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead. Foxe.

Crying as a sheep does. Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. Longfellow.

Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively. Not a blessed man came to set her [a boat] free. R. D. Blackmore.

A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault. A vigorous blow might win [Hanno's camp]. T. Arnold.