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Bell and Tongue Definitions

Bell

A hollow metal musical instrument, usually cup-shaped with a flared opening, that emits a metallic tone when struck.

Tongue

The fleshy, movable, muscular organ, attached in most vertebrates to the floor of the mouth, that is the principal organ of taste, an aid in chewing and swallowing, and, in humans, an important organ of speech.

Bell

The round, flared opening of a wind instrument at the opposite end from the mouthpiece.

Tongue

An analogous organ or part in invertebrate animals, as in certain insects or mollusks.

Bell

Bells A percussion instrument consisting of metal tubes or bars that emit tones when struck.

Tongue

The tongue of an animal, such as a cow, used as food.
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Bell

A hollow, usually inverted vessel, such as one used for diving deep below the surface of a body of water.

Tongue

A spoken language or dialect.

Bell

The corolla of a flower
"In a cowslip's bell I lie" (Shakespeare).

Tongue

Speech; talk
If there is goodness in your heart, it will come to your tongue.

Bell

The body of a jellyfish.

Tongue

The act or power of speaking
She had no tongue to answer.
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Bell

A stroke on a hollow metal instrument to mark the hour.

Tongue

Tongues Speech or vocal sounds produced in a state of religious ecstasy.

Bell

The time indicated by the striking of this instrument, divided into half hours.

Tongue

Style or quality of utterance
Her sharp tongue.

Bell

The bellowing or baying cry of certain animals, such as a deer in rut or a beagle on the hunt.

Tongue

The bark or baying of a hunting dog that sees game
The dog gave tongue when the fox came through the hedge.
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Bell

To put a bell on.

Tongue

The vibrating end of a reed in a wind instrument.

Bell

To cause to flare like a bell.

Tongue

A flame.

Bell

To assume the form of a bell; flare.

Tongue

The flap of material under the laces or buckles of a shoe.

Bell

To utter long, deep, resonant sounds; bellow.

Tongue

A spit of land; a promontory.

Bell

A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.

Tongue

A bell clapper.

Bell

An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.

Tongue

The harnessing pole attached to the front axle of a horse-drawn vehicle.

Bell

The sounding of a bell as a signal.

Tongue

A protruding strip along the edge of a board that fits into a matching groove on the edge of another board.

Bell

A telephone call.
I’ll give you a bell later.

Tongue

(Music) To separate or articulate (notes played on a brass or wind instrument) by shutting off the stream of air with the tongue.

Bell

A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.

Tongue

To touch or lick with the tongue.

Bell

(music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.

Tongue

To give (someone) a French-kiss.

Bell

(nautical) Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)

Tongue

To provide (a board) with a tongue.

Bell

The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.

Tongue

To join by means of a tongue and groove.

Bell

(computing) The bell character.

Tongue

(Archaic) To scold.

Bell

Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.

Tongue

(Music) To articulate notes on a brass or wind instrument.

Bell

(architecture) The 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.

Tongue

To project
A spit of land tonguing into the bay.

Bell

A bubble.

Tongue

The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.

Bell

The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.

Tongue

This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).
Cold tongue with mustard

Bell

(transitive) To attach a bell to.
Who will bell the cat?

Tongue

Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.

Bell

(transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
To bell a tube

Tongue

(metonym) A language.
He was speaking in his native tongue.

Bell

To telephone.

Tongue

(obsolete) Speakers of a language, collectively.

Bell

(intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
Hops bell.

Tongue

(obsolete) Voice the distinctive sound of a person's speech; accent distinctive manner of pronouncing a language.

Bell

(intransitive) To bellow or roar.

Tongue

Manner of speaking, often habitually.

Bell

(transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.

Tongue

(metonym) A person speaking in a specified manner (most often plural).

Bell

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.

Tongue

The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.

Bell

A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.

Tongue

(obsolete) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

Bell

Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.

Tongue

Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

Bell

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.

Tongue

(obsolete) Honourable discourse; eulogy.

Bell

The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.

Tongue

Glossolalia.

Bell

To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.

Tongue

In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).

Bell

To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.

Tongue

Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.

Bell

To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.

Tongue

A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
The tongue of a buckle, or of a balance

Bell

To utter by bellowing.

Tongue

A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.

Bell

To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.
As loud as belleth wind in hell.
The wild buck bells from ferny brake.

Tongue

The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

Bell

A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

Tongue

The clapper of a bell.

Bell

A push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed

Tongue

(figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.

Bell

The sound of a bell being struck;
Saved by the bell
She heard the distant toll of church bells

Tongue

A small sole (type of fish).

Bell

(nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.

Tongue

(nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.

Bell

The shape of a bell

Tongue

(music) A reed.

Bell

A phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)

Tongue

(geology) A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.

Bell

English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)

Tongue

On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.

Bell

United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)

Tongue

(slang) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.

Bell

A percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer

Tongue

To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
A soil horizon that tongues into clay

Bell

The flared opening of a tubular device

Tongue

To join by means of a tongue and groove.
To tongue boards together

Bell

Attach a bell to;
Bell cows

Tongue

To talk; to prate.

Tongue

To speak; to utter.

Tongue

To chide; to scold.

Tongue

An organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
To make his English sweet upon his tongue.

Tongue

The power of articulate utterance; speech.
Parrots imitating human tongue.

Tongue

Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

Tongue

Honorable discourse; eulogy.
She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honor.

Tongue

A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.
Whose tongue thou shalt not understand.
To speak all tongues.

Tongue

Speech; words or declarations only; - opposed to thoughts or actions.
My little children, let us love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Tongue

A people having a distinct language.
A will gather all nations and tongues.

Tongue

The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.

Tongue

Any small sole.

Tongue

That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.

Tongue

A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.

Tongue

A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.

Tongue

A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.

Tongue

The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

Tongue

The clapper of a bell.

Tongue

A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.

Tongue

To speak; to utter.

Tongue

To chide; to scold.
How might she tongue me.

Tongue

To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

Tongue

To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.

Tongue

To talk; to prate.

Tongue

To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

Tongue

A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

Tongue

A human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

Tongue

Any long thin projection that is transient;
Tongues of flame licked at the walls
Rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark

Tongue

A manner of speaking;
He spoke with a thick tongue
She has a glib tongue

Tongue

A narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea

Tongue

The tongue of certain animals used as meat

Tongue

The flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot

Tongue

Metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side

Tongue

Articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments

Tongue

Lick or explore with the tongue

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