Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BELL'ING
BELL'ING, n. [Sax. bellan, to bellow.]
- The noise of a roe in rutting time; a huntsman's term. – Dict.
- adj. Growing or forming like a bell; growing full and ripe; used of hops; from bell. – Ash.
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