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n. [ F. bellefleur, lit., beautiful flower. ] A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple. [ Written also bellefleur. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } n. (Zool.) Any large fly troublesome to cattle, as the gadflies and breeze flies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a slender nonstinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Fairyland. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Gallflies (Zool.) An insect that deposits its eggs in plants, and occasions galls, esp. any small hymenopteran of the genus Cynips and allied genera. See Illust. of Gall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no regard to self; unselfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lo now, what hearts have men! they never mount
As high as woman in her selfless mood. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality or state of being selfless. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.) A perennial, cruciferous plant (Cheiranthus Cheiri), with sweet-scented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red. In Europe it very common on old walls. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is sometimes extended to other species of Cheiranthus and of the related genus Erysimum, especially the American Western wallflower (Erysimum asperum), a biennial herb with orange-yellow flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) In Australia, the desert poison bush (Gastrolobium grandiflorum); -- called also native wallflower. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Ore Dressing) An inclined percussion table, usually with longitudinal grooves in its surface, agitated by side blows at right angles to the flow of the pulp; -- so called after the inventor. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]