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ewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.

The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper.

Bringing forth two at a birth.

The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth. "At her next birth." Milton.

ding to draw persons to apostasy. Looking diligently, . . . lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you. Heb. xii. 15.

principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.

A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.

A little bud springing from a parent bud. We have a criterion to distinguish one bud from another, or the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring. E. Darwin.

ssel to the engineer, helmsman, etc. (b) A waiting boy who answers a cal, or cames at the ringing of a bell; a bell boy. -- Call note, the note naturally used by the male bird to call the female. It is artifically applied by birdcatchers as a decoy. Latham. -- Call of the house (Legislative Bodies), a calling over th…

The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art.

Cannon, collectively; artillery. The ringing of bells and roaring of cannonry proclaimed his course through the country. W. Irving.

step, to take a break in the regular succession of steps, in marching or walking, as by bringing the hollow of one foot against the heel of the other, and then stepping off with the foot which is in advance.

Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; elemosynary; as, a charitable institution.

The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition. Milton. Addison.

The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.

The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.

To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other. Pope.

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

To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound. The fierce Caretes . . . clanged their sounding arms. Prior.

A sharp, harsh, ringing sound. Dryden.