1. Furnished with a bell or bells. Often in comb., as double-belled.
1833. Ht. Martineau, Manch. Strike, vii. 81. His belled cap.
1865. Ruskin, Sesame, 4. To ring with confidence the visitors’ bell at double-belled doors.
2. Bell-flowered. Often in comb., as blue-belled.
a. 1850. Beddoes, Alpine Spir. Song, i. Where the gentians blue-belled blow.
1856. Ruskin, King Gold. Riv., v. 51. Soft belled gentians, more blue than the sky. Ibid. (1869), Q. of Air, § 83. The belled group, of the hyacinth and convallaria.
