BELLOWS

bellows

(noun) (used in the plural) a mechanical device that blows a strong current of air; used to make a fire burn more fiercely or to sound a musical instrument

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Bellows

plural of Bellow

Anagrams

• Boswell

Etymology 1

Noun

bellows (plural bellows)

A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air.

Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint.

(informal or archaic) The lungs.

(photography) Flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back.

(figurative) That which fans the fire of hatred, jealousy, etc.

Usage notes

• "Bellows" is used with both singular and plural verbs. One can even find "A bellows is/was".

Verb

bellows (third-person singular simple present bellowses, present participle bellowsing, simple past and past participle bellowsed)

(intransitive, transitive) To operate a bellows; to direct air at (something) using a bellows.

(intransitive, figuratively) To expand and contract like a bellows.

(transitive) To fold up like a bellows; to accordion.

Etymology 2

See bellow

Noun

bellows

plural of bellow

Verb

bellows

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bellow

Anagrams

• Boswell

Source: Wiktionary

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Bel"lows, n. sing. & pl. Etym: [OE. bely, below, belly, bellows, AS. bælg, bælig, bag, bellows, belly. Bellows is prop. a pl. and the orig. sense is bag. See Belly.]

Definition: An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. Bellows camera, in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows.

– Hydrostatic bellows. See Hydrostatic.

– A pair of bellows, the ordinary household instrument for blowing fires, consisting of two nearly heart-shaped boards with handles, connected by leather, and having a valve and tube.

BELLOW

Bel"low, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bellowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bellowing.] Etym: [OE. belwen, belowen, AS. bylgean, fr. bellan; akin to G. bellen, and perh. to L. flere to weep, OSlav. bleja to bleat, Lith. balsas voice. Cf. Bell, n. & v., Bawl, Bull.]

1. To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.

2. To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor. Dryden.

3. To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound. The bellowing voice of boiling seas. Dryden.

Bel"low, v. t.

Definition: To emit with a loud voice; to shout; -- used with out. "Would bellow out a laugh." Dryden.

Bel"low, n.

Definition: A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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