Monday, October 15, 2007
alexander
–noun (often initial capital letter) a cocktail made with crème de cacao with gin or brandy (brandy alexander) and sweet cream.
bell
–noun 1. 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.
2. the stroke or sound of such an instrument: We rose at the bell.
3. anything in the form of a bell.
4. 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.
5. Architecture. the underlying part of a foliated capital.
6. Nautical. a. any of the half-hour units of nautical time rung on the bell of a ship.
b. each individual ring of the bell, counted with others to reckon the time: It is now four bells.
c. a signal on the telegraph of a large power vessel, made between the navigating officers and the engineer.
7. Zoology. umbrella (def. 2).
8. Botany. the bell-shaped corolla of a flower.
9. Metallurgy. a conical lid that seals the top of a blast furnace and lowers to admit a charge.
–verb (used with object) 10. to cause to swell or expand like a bell (often fol. by out): Belling out the tubes will permit a freer passage of air.
11. to put a bell on.
–verb (used without object) 12. to take or have the form of a bell.
13. Botany. to produce bells; be in bell (said of hops when the seed vessels are forming).
—Idioms14. bell the cat. cat1 (def. 15).
15. ring a bell, to evoke a memory, esp. a vague or partial recollection; remind one of something: His name rings a bell but I can't remember him.
16. ring the bell, to provide what is desired; be satisfactory or successful: This new book rings the bell with teenagers.
17. saved by the bell, a. (of a boxer) saved from a knockout by the ringing of a gong signaling the end of a round.
b. (of any person) spared from anticipated trouble by some extraneous event.
18. with bells on, Informal. eagerly; ready to enjoy oneself: Just say when, and we'll be there with bells on.
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