(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……

Bot. in descriptions of plant stems, stalks, seeds, etc.: (a) Having longitudinal ridges or palpable edges, ribbed; (b) in compound adjectives in which the specified number of such edges implies a……

Bot. of stems, etc.: four-edged, square in cross-section, quadrate [cp. four-square adj.]. …

Bot. lumpiness, frequency of nodes. …

Bot. Ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata). …

(a) Bot. Cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans); (b) a design in the shape of a leaf of the cinquefoil. …

Bot. Of a plant's stalk: having perceptible longitudinal ridges or edges, ridged. …

Bot. of seeds, seed-pods, etc.: three-cornered, triangular in cross-section, triquetrous [cp. thre-square adj.]. …

(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 material defect or spot; also fig. [quot. c1400 Bk.Mother]; also, an imperfection; withouten wem; (b) error; mistake, flaw; also, infringement [quot. a1387]; withouten wem. …

(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;……

Bot. of a plant's stem: somewhat bent or crooked. …