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A young lady of superior beauty and attractions; a handsome lady, or one who attracts notice in society; a fair lady.

One versed in belleslettres.

Hung with a bell or bells.

ive pottery with a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland.

A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.

Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.

Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres. "An unlearned, belletristic trifler." M. Arnold.

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

A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid. [Obs.] Spenser.

Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial. [Obs.] "Bellic Cæsar." Feltham.

Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious. Arnold was, in fact, in a bellicose vein. W. Irving.

In a bellicose manner.

Bellicose. [Obs.]

, a. Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.

The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.

Waging war; carrying on war. "Belligerent powers." E. Everett.

In a belligerent manner; hostilely.

A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time. Johnson.

Mighty in war; armipotent. [R.] Blount.

A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton.