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To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.

A horse for battle or parade. Macaulay. And furious every charger neighed. Campbell.

The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff. [Written also choy root.]

The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments. Instruments that made melodius chime. Milton.

A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. "Chink of bell." Cowper.

A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.

ake a selection; to decide. They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion. Prescott.

h government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites.

Summoning to church. The sound of the churchgoing bell. Cowper.

Any one of several umbelliferous plants, of the genera Myrrhis, Osmorrhiza, etc.

a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.

A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. Nares.

or repeatedly; to shout. Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly. Longfellow. To clamor bells, to repeat the strokes quickly so as to produce a loud clang. Bp. Warbur

and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald. "I have marshaled my clan." Campbell.

That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell. Clapper rail (Zoöl.), an Americam species of rail (Rallus scepitans).

uted. I . . . am sure he will clear me from partiality. Dryden. How! wouldst thou clear rebellion Addison.

ing principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like.

spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.

or close body. Not less the bee would range her cells, . . . The foxglove cluster dappled bells. Tennyson. Or from the forest falls the clustered snow. Thomson. Clustered column (Arch.), a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns collected together.

unity; as, vapors coalesce. The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other nations. Campbell. Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing, could not be shaken loose. De Quincey.