Definitions for belling

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belling bel·ling

Spelling: [bel-ing]

IPA: /ˈbɛl ɪŋ/

Belling is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 120 anagrams from letters in belling (begilln).

Definitions for belling

noun

1. shivaree (def 1).
2. a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
3. the stroke or sound of such an instrument:
4. anything in the form of a bell.
5. the large end of a funnel, or the end of a pipe, tube, or any musical wind instrument, when its edge is turned out and enlarged.
6. Architecture. the underlying part of a foliated capital.
7. Nautical. any of the half-hour units of nautical time rung on the bell of a ship. each individual ring of the bell, counted with others to reckon the time: a signal on the telegraph of a large power vessel, made between the navigating officers and the engineer.
8. Zoology. umbrella (def 2).
9. Botany. the bell-shaped corolla of a flower.
10. Metallurgy. a conical lid that seals the top of a blast furnace and lowers to admit a charge.
11. the cry of a rutting stag or hunting dog.

Idioms

1. bell the cat. cat (def 19).
2. ring a bell, to evoke a memory, especially a vague or partial recollection; remind one of something:
3. ring someone's bell, to provide what is desired; be satisfactory or successful: Slang. to arouse sexually or bring someone to orgasm. Also, ring the bell.
4. saved by the bell, (of a boxer) saved from a knockout by the ringing of a gong signaling the end of a round. (of any person) spared from anticipated trouble by some extraneous event.
5. with bells on, Informal. eagerly; ready to enjoy oneself:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to swell or expand like a bell (often followed by out):
2. to put a bell on.

verb (used without object)

1. to take or have the form of a bell.
2. Botany. to produce bells; be in bell (said of hops when the seed vessels are forming).

verb (used with or without object)

1. to bellow like a stag in rutting time.
2. to bay, as a hunting dog.

Origin of belling

First recorded in 1860-65; bell¹ + -ing¹

Examples for belling

Lī′bellant, one who brings a libel; Lī′beller; Lī′belling, defaming.

Baying, belling, she was now bounding across lots to investigate.

Then arose the question, who should bell the cat, or rather, who should lead the cat to the belling.

Conan realized with a crawling of his skin that beyond the wall the belling voice had ceased.

Just then too, I heard the belling bay of the hound Master, and waited for the next.

Their cry is peculiar, being something between the belling of a deer and the neigh of a horse.

In a storm on Hallowe'en is heard the belling of his hounds.

Not far below them, belling musically through the dusk, came the song of the ripples.

And those shrill cries now belling through the mountain heights ought to draw everyone of their species within miles.

It is said that one town alone was obliged to furnish the Prussian general, belling, with fifty girls.