bell

A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.

The sounding of a bell as a signal.

A telephone call.

“I’ll give you a bell later.”

A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.

The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.

Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)

The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.

A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).

Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.

The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.

An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.

To attach a bell to.

“Who will bell the cat?”

To shape so that it flares out like a bell.

“to bell a tube”

To telephone.

To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.

“Hops bell.”

The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.

To bellow or roar.

To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.