noun

• (music) 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.
  "HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells!"
• (chiefly British, informal) A telephone call.
  "I’ll give you a bell later."
• (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
• (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)

verb

• (transitive) To attach a bell to.
  "Who will bell the cat?"
• (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
  "to bell a tube"
• (slang, transitive) To telephone.
  ""Vinny, you tosser, it's Keith. I thought you were back today. I'm in town. Bell us on the mobile."
• (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
  "Hops bell."

verb

• (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
  "This animal is said to harbour in the place where he resides. When he cries, he is said to bell; the print of his hoof is called the slot; his tail is called the single; his excrement the fumet; his horns are called his head [...]."
• (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
  "Their leaders bell their bleating tunes In doleful sound."

noun

• (US, Canada) a telephone utility; a Baby Bell.