(obsolete) An alarm-bell.

Trust in one's positive characteristics; self-confidence; self-worth.

A boneless cut of fatty meat from the belly of a pig.

(figuratively, usually in the plural) A sudden awareness of danger. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see alarm, bell.

(US, telecommunications, informal, historical) Collectively, the family of companies associated with American Telephone & Telegraph, providing telephone service in the United States for many years through 1983.

Used to ask whether the interlocutor believes in God.

breathing by contracting the diaphragm

A wicked demon in Christian and Jewish apocrypha.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bell the cat

(informal) A style of religious worship emphasising high ritual, including use of vestments, bells and incense, especially that of High Church Anglicanism and Catholicism.