Word Meanings - ALVINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.

Related words: (words related to ALVINE)

• ALVINE
  Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.
• BELLYCHEER
  Good cheer; viands. "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.
• BELLYBAND
  A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail. (more info) 1. A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth. 2. A band of flannel or other cloth about the belly.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• BELLYFUL
  As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough. Lloyd. King James told his son that he would have his bellyful of parliamentary impeachments. Johnson.
• BELLY
  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. Shak. -- Belly fretting, the chafing of a horse's belly with a girth. Johnson.
• BELLYCHEAT
  An apron or covering for the front of the person. Beau. & Fl.
• BELLY-PINCHED
  Pinched with hunger; starved. "The belly-pinched wolf." Shak.
• BELLY-GOD
  One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.
• BELLYBOUND
  Costive; constipated.
• BELLYACHE
  Pain in the bowels; colic.
• REDBELLY
  The char.
• POT-BELLY
  A protuberant belly.
• SAWBELLY
  The alewife.
• GOR-BELLY
  A prominent belly; a big-bellied person.
• WHITEBELLY
  The American widgeon, or baldpate. The prairie chicken.
• SPECKLED-BELLY
  The gadwall.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach
• SWAGBELLY
  Any large tumor developed in the abdomen, and neither fluctuating nor sonorous. Dunglison. (more info) 1. A prominent, overhanging belly. Smollett.