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▪ I. belled, ppl. a.|bɛld|
[f. bell n. or v. + -ed.]
1. Furnished with a bell or bells. Often in comb., as double-belled.
1833H. Martineau Manch. Strike vii. 81 His belled cap. 1865Ruskin Sesame 4 To ring with confidence the visitors' bell at double-belled doors.
2. Bell-flowered. Often in comb., as blue-belled.
a1850Beddoes Alpine Spir. Song i, Where the gentians blue-belled blow. 1856Ruskin King Gold. Riv. v. 51 Soft belled gentians, more blue than the sky. 1869― Q. of Air §83 The belled group, of the hyacinth and convallaria.
▪ II. belled
obs. var. of beld, bald.
1568Wills & Inv. N.C. (1860) 297 A little belled meare and a fole. |