bell

1. 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.
2. The sounding of a bell as a signal.
3. A telephone call.

   I’ll give you a bell later.

4. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
5. The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
6. Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
7. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
8. A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
9. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
10. 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.
11. An instrument situated on a bicycle's handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.

1. To attach a bell to.

   Who will bell the cat?

2. To shape so that it flares out like a bell.

   to bell a tube

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

   Hops bell.

noun

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

1. To bellow or roar.
2. To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.