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Belly   /bˈɛli/   Listen
noun
Belly  n.  (pl. bellies)  
1.
That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen. Note: Formerly all the splanchnic or visceral cavities were called bellies; the lower belly being the abdomen; the middle belly, the thorax; and the upper belly, the head.
2.
The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly. "Underneath the belly of their steeds."
3.
The womb. (Obs.) "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee."
4.
The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship. "Out of the belly of hell cried I."
5.
(Arch.) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
Belly doublet, a doublet of the 16th century, hanging down so as to cover the belly.
Belly fretting, the chafing of a horse's belly with a girth.
Belly timber, food. (Ludicrous)
Belly worm, a worm that breeds or lives in the belly (stomach or intestines).


verb
Belly  v. t.  (past & past part. bellied; pres. part. bellying)  To cause to swell out; to fill. (R.) "Your breath of full consent bellied his sails."


Belly  v. i.  To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge. "The bellying canvas strutted with the gale."





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"Belly" Quotes from Famous Books



... work on Sarawak, published in 1848, asserts that there are "two different and quite dissimilar kinds of birds, though both are swallows" (he should have said swifts), and that the one which produces the white nest is larger and of more lively colours, with a white belly, and is found on the sea-coast, while the other is smaller and darker and found more in the interior. He admits, however, that though he had opportunities of observing the former, he had not been able to ...
— British Borneo - Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo • W. H. Treacher
... Master answers, "'t is but a dry belly-ache. Didst thou not mark that he stayed his roaring when I did press hard over the lesser bowels? Note that he hath not the pulse of them with fevers, and by what Dorcas telleth me there hath been ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... our men to give her a broadside, and stood carefully examining her strength, and where I might give council to board her in the night when the admiral came up, I received a shot a little above the belly, by which I was rendered unserviceable for a good while after, yet no other person in my ship was touched that night. Fortunately, by means of one captain Grant, an honest true-hearted man, nothing was neglected though I was thus disabled. Until midnight, when the admiral came ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr
... old scamp, I'll take this friskiness out of you in a minute," said he, giving the horse a slap under the belly as he reached to pull the ...
— Claim Number One • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... in the kitchen was good," Iliiopoi resumed, licking his lips. "The poi was one-finger, the pig fat, the salmon-belly unstinking, the fish of great freshness and plenty, though the opihis" (tiny, rock-clinging shell-fish) "had been salted and thereby made tough. Never should the opihis be salted. Often have I told you, ...
— On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales • Jack London


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