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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 tax, especially on salt. [France] Brande & C.

A gabeler. Carlyle.

The party against whom a libel has been filed; -- corresponding to defendant in a common law action.

One who rebels; a rebel.

A red color used in enameling. Weale.

A small or partial umbel; an umbellule.

ll or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar. As loud as belleth wind in hell. Chaucer. The wild buck bells from ferny brake. Sir W. Scott.

A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple. [Written also bellefleur.]

One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.

s self; to refrain. His dauntless heart would fain have held From weeping, but his eyes rebelled. Dryden.

s of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.

One who labels. [Written also labeller.]

One who libels. [Written also libeller.] " Libelers of others." Buckkminster.