(a) A church bell; also, a warning or signal bell of any kind, a small bell held in the hand; (b) a bell used as a musical instrument, a gong; (c) a hand bell rung before a corpse on the way to……
(a) An uncultivated, usu. undesirable, plant, a weed; also, a wild aquatic plant [quot. c1450]
(b) fig. and in fig. context, applied to other undesirable things: a person of bad stock or noxious……
(a) A male sheep, ram; a castrated ram; ?also, an adult sheep; also, the flesh of a sheep or ram, mutton
(b) a ram used as a sacrifice in religious ritual;
(c) the ram which bore the Golden Fleece;……
