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Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower. "In a cowslip's bell I lie." Shak.

An infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ, common in fresh-water ponds.

A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.

ngle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.

A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view.

onze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells. Bell metal ore, a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron; the mineral stannite.

A species of Capsicum, or Guinea pepper (C. annuum). It is the red pepper of the gardens.

The process of washing molten pig iron by adding iron oxide, proposed by I. Lowthian Bell of England about 1875.

See Cloche.

Paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face.

Having the striking surface convex; -- said of hammers.

Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun. Byron.

Having the shape of a widemouthed bell; campanulate.

An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nigh…

ermany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.

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

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.