a well known machine, ranked by musicians among the musical instruments of percussion.

The metal of which a bell is made, is a composition of tin and copper, or pewter and copper; the proportion of one to the other is almost twenty pounds of pewter, or twenty-three pounds of tin, to one hundred weight of copper.

Bell-metal is prohibited to be imported, as are hawk-bells, &c.

The constituent parts of a bell are the body or barrel, the clapper on the inside, and the ear or cannon on which it hangs to a large beam of wood.

Divining-Bell. See Pneumatics.

Bell-foundery. See Foundery.

Bell-flower, in botany. See Campanula.

Bell-weed, in botany. See Jacea.