BELL

Definitions

1. 1. A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.
2. 2. A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.
3. 3. Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower. "In a cowslip's bell I lie." Shak.
4. 4. That 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.
5. 5. The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.