Bell

1. n. The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.
2. n. 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.
3. n. A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.
4. n. Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.
5. n. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.