Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, & Michigan See shivaree. See Regional Note at shivaree.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In submarine operations, the use of the diving-bell.
- n. Formerly, bellowing; in modern use. the noise made by a deer in rutting-time.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of bell.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple
Etymologies
- From bell1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He played it as he shaped it: the last low string whose reverberations set his own sword belling in anguish and shattered every other weapon inside and out of the halt Silence settled like old dust over the room.”
“The "belling" of male stags, if I remember rightly, is a challenge, and so I daresay is the roaring of the lion during the breeding season.”
“Schneider says a serious knee injury — ACL, MCL — screwed her capability to do the door belling required.”
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“Rather, it is for certain things, like the silver of old cedar shingles, the tang of wood smoke and the belling of hounds on their return from the fields.”
“By the end of the book, the only thing Coetzee can affirm, the only thing Costello affirms, is the belling of frogs emerging from mud: the animal life of sheer survival.”
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“With the kids jingle belling and everyone telling you,”
“ She is all he needs to take care of for a while, and as he tucks her in and makes her take her vitamins and listens to the self-help tapes with her, he wonders why he has never realized how satisfying home can be, but she does get better and puts on pretty dresses and has the long blonde hair cut into a belling pageboy bob.”
“If anyone can get to the bottom of this jingle-belling, toy-toting madness, it's the gang at Fox News.”
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“Chuck Schumer must be tagged as in belling the cat with his part in the collapse of the US Financial system.”
“Its sails filled with a Mage-conjured breeze, belling out like great white wings, carrying its crew away from Armethalieh and out to freedom.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘belling’.
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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
blandish, blazon, blench, blendling, blendure, blewit, blunge, blype, borné, borsella, borzoi, boscage and 582 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Mawidge is what bwings us togevaah
Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage . . .
chichevache, bicorne, uxorovalent, uxoravalent, uxorious, unfellowed, azygophrenia, agapetae, agunah, anaxiphilia, anuloma, pratiloma and 28 more...
Tweets
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whichbe Deer's cry at mating time. (From Lucifeous Logolepsy) Jun 8, 2008