BELLY
\bˈɛlɪ], \bˈɛlɪ], \b_ˈɛ_l_ɪ]\
Definitions of BELLY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the hollow inside of something; "in the belly of the ship"
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a part that bulges deeply; "the belly of a sail"
By Princeton University
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the hollow inside of something; "in the belly of the ship"
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a part that bulges deeply; "the belly of a sail"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.
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The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly.
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The womb.
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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.
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The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
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To cause to swell out; to fill.
By Oddity Software
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That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.
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The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly.
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The womb.
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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.
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The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
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To cause to swell out; to fill.
By Noah Webster.
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That part of the human body which extends from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels; the abdomen; the corresponding part in the lower animals; the part of anything that swells out into a larger size; as, the belly of a flask.
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To swell and extend; bulge out, as sails in the wind.
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To cause to swell out; as, the winds belly the sails.
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Bellied.
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Bellying.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The part of the body between the breast and the thighs.
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To swell out: to fill.
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To swell:-pr.p. bellying; pa.p. bellied.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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At the present day, the abdomen. Formerly, all the splanchnic cavities were called bellies ;-the lower belly, venter in'fimus, being the abdomen; the middle belly, venter me'dius, the thorax; and the upper belly, venter supre'mus, the head. Also, the womb. See Veuter.
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] That part of the body which contain the bowels; the abdomen;—the part of any thing which resembles the belly in protuberance or cavity.
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That part of the human body which reaches from the breast to the thighs, containing the bowels; the womb; that part of a man which requires food; that part of any thing that swells out into a larger capacity; any place in which something is inclosed.
By Thomas Sheridan
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