heath-belln.
1. The bell-shaped flower of the Heath: cf. heather-bell n.
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1808 W. Scott Marmion iii. Introd. 129 Let the wild heathbell flourish still.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 103 Heath-bell, with her purple bloom.
1840 L. S. Costello Summer amongst Bocages & Vines I. 128 Before the smell of steam has taken the place of the perfume of the heath-bell.
2. Applied to other bell-shaped flowers growing on heaths, esp. the Blue-bell ( Campanula rotundifolia).
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bell-flower1578
bluebell1578
Canterbury bells1578
Coventry bells1578
Coventry Marians1578
Coventry rapes1578
fair-in-sight1578
gauntlet1578
haskwort1578
Marian's violet1578
throatwort1578
lady's looking glass1597
mariet1597
Mercury's violet1597
peach-bells1597
steeple bells1597
uvula-wort1597
Venus looking-glass1597
campanula1664
Spanish bell1664
corn-violet1665
rampion1688
Venus' glass1728
harebell1767
heath-bell1805
witch bell1808
slipperwort1813
meadow-bell1827
greygle1844
platycodon1844
lady's thimble1853
kikyo1884
witches' bells1884
balloon flower1901
fairy thimble1914
mountain bell1923
1805 J. Grahame Sabbath (ed. 2) 81 Thinly strew'd with heath-bells up and down.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 135 Last lingering of the flowery kind, Blue heath-bells tremble 'neath the sheltering furze.
1826 Mirror of Months in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1284 Even the elegant and fragile heathbell, or harebell, has not yet quite disappeared.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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