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An open level tract of country; especially "Campagna di Roma." The extensive undulating plain which surrounds Rome.

A mouse (Arvicala agrestis), called also meadow mouse, which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.

To serve in a campaign.

One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.

A church bell.

Furnished with, or bearing, campanes, or bells.

The bellbird of South America. See Bellbird.

Bells. [R.]

Open country. Sir W. Temple.

Bell-shaped.

A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church. Many of the campaniles od Italy are lofty and magnificent atructures. Swift.

Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform.

One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer.

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

A large genus of plants bearing bell-shaped flowers, often of great beauty; -- also called bellflower.

Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Camponulaceæ) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.

A hydroid of the family ampanularidæ, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecæ.

Bell-shaped.

denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3.

Logwood.