Bell-the-Cat

Bell-the-Cat, Archibald Douglas, Earl of Arran, so called from his offer to dispose by main force of an obnoxious favourite of the king, James III.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Bell Rock * Bella, Stephano della
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Bell, Ellis
Bell, George Joseph
Bell, Henry
Bell, Henry Glassford
Bell, John
Bell, Peter
Bell, Robert
Bell, Sir Charles
Bell, Thomas
Bell Rock
Bell-the-Cat
Bella, Stephano della
Bell`amy, Jacob
Bellange
Bellar`mine, Robert
Bellay, Joachim du
Belle France
Belle-Isle
Belleisle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, Count of
Bellenden, John
Bellenden, William

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Bell-the-Cat in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable