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  • English Word Believer Definition One who was admitted to all the rights of divine worship and instructed in all the mysteries of the Christian religion, in distinction from a catechumen, or one yet under instruction.
  • English Word Believing Definition of Believe
  • English Word Believing Definition That believes; having belief.
  • English Word Belight Definition To illuminate.
  • English Word Belike Definition It is likely or probably; perhaps.
  • English Word Belime Definition To besmear or insnare with birdlime.
  • English Word Belimed Definition of Belime
  • English Word Belittle Definition To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.
  • English Word Belittled Definition of Belittle
  • English Word Belittling Definition of Belittle
  • English Word Belive Definition Forthwith; speedily; quickly.
  • English Word Belk Definition To vomit.
  • English Word Bell Definition 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.
  • English Word Bell Definition A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.
  • English Word Bell Definition Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.
  • English Word Bell Definition 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.
  • English Word Bell Definition The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.
  • English Word Bell Definition To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.
  • English Word Bell Definition To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.
  • English Word Bell Definition To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.
  • English Word Bell Definition To utter by bellowing.
  • English Word Bell Definition To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.
  • English Word Bell animalcule Definition An infusorian of the family Vorticellidae, common in fresh-water ponds.
  • English Word Bell bearer Definition A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax.
  • English Word Bell crank Definition A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.
  • English Word Bell jar Definition A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view.
  • English Word Bell metal Definition A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells.
  • English Word Bell pepper Definition A species of Capsicum, or Guinea pepper (C. annuum). It is the red pepper of the gardens.
  • English Word Bell-faced Definition Having the striking surface convex; -- said of hammers.
  • English Word Bell-mouthed Definition Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun.