Webster's Dictionary 1828

973

BELIVE

BELI'VE, adverb [See Live.] Speedily; quickly.

974

BELL

BELL, noun1. A vessel or hollow body, used for making sounds. Its constituent parts are a barrel or hollow body, enlarged or expanded at one end, an ear or cannon by which it is...

975

BELL-FLOWER

BELL'-FLOWER, noun [bell and flower.] A genus of plants, so named from the shape of the corol or flower which resembles a bell, Latin Campanula, a genus of monogynian pentanders...

976

BELL-METAL

BELL'-METAL, noun [bell and metal] A mixture of copper and tin, in the proportion of about ten parts of copper to one of tin, or according to Thomson, three parts to one, and us...

977

BELL-SHAPED

BELL'-SHAPED, adjective [bell and shape.] Having the form of a bell.

978

BELL-WETHER

BELL'-WETHER, noun [bell and wether.] A wether or sheep which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.BELL'-WORT, noun A plant, the Uvularia.

979

BELLADONNA

BEL'LADONNA, noun A plant, a species of Atropa, or deadly nightshade.

980

BELLATRIX

BEL'LATRIX, noun [Latin] A ruddy, glittering star of the second magnitude, in the left shoulder of Orion; so named from its imagined influence in exciting war.

981

BELLE

BELLE, noun bel. [Latin bellus.] A young lady. In popular use, a lady of superior beauty and much admired.

982

BELLED

BELL'ED, adjective Hung with bells.

983

BELLES-LETTERS

BELLES-LETTERS, nounplural bel' letter, or anglicized, bell-letters. Polite literature; a word of very vague signification. It includes poetry and oratory; but authors are not a...

984

BELLIGERENT

BELLIG'ERENT, adjective [Latin belliger, warlike; belligero, to wage war; from bellum, war, and gero, to wage; part. gerens, gerentis, waging. Gr. war.]Waging war; carrying on w...

985

BELLIGEROUS

BELLIG'EROUS, adjective The same as belligerent. [Not used.]

986

BELLING

BELL'ING, noun The noise of a roe in rutting time; a huntsman's term.1. Growing or forming like a bell; growing full and ripe; used of hops; from bell.

987

BELLIPOTENT

BELLIP'OTENT, adjective [Latin bellum, war, and potens, powerful, bellipotens.]Powerful or mighty in war. [Little used.]

988

BELLIQUE

BELLIQUE, adjective bellee'k. War-like. [Not used.]

989

BELLLIBONE

BELL'LIBONE, noun A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness. [Not in use.]

990

BELLON

BEL'LON, noun A disease, attended with languor and intolerable griping of the bowels, common in places where lead ore is smelted.

991

BELLONA

BELLO'NA, noun [from Latin bellum, war.] The goddess of war.

992

BELLOW

BEL'LOW, verb intransitive [Latin balo.]1. To make a hollow, loud noise, as a bull; to make a loud outcry; to roar. In contempt, to vociferate or clamor.2. To roar, as the sea i...

993

BELLOWING

BEL'LOWING, participle present tense Making a loud hollow sound, as a bull, or as the roaring of billows.BEL'LOWING, noun A loud hollow sound or roar.

994

BELLOWS

BEL'LOWS, noun sing.and plural [Latin bulga] An instrument, utensil or machine for blowing fire, either in private dwellings or in forges, furnaces and shops. It is so formed as...

995

BELLOWS-FISH

BEL'LOWS-FISH, noun The trumpet-fish, about four inches long, with a long snout; whence its name.

996

BELLUINE

BEL'LUINE, adjective [Latin belluinus, brom bellua, a beast.] Beastly; pertaining to or like a beast; brutal. [Little used.]

997

BELLY

BEL'LY, noun1. That part of the human body which extends from the breast to the thighs, containing the bowels. It is called also the abdomen or lower belly to distinguish it fro...

998

BELLY-ACHE

BEL'LY-ACHE, noun [belly and ache.] Pain in the bowels; the colic.BEL'LY-ACHE BUSH or WEED, A species of Jatropha.

999

BELLY-BAND

BEL'LY-BAND, noun A band that encompasses the belly of a horse, and fastens the saddle; a girth.