Word Meanings - BELLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: 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. -- Belly timber, food. Prior. -- Belly worm, a worm that breeds or lives in the belly (stomach or intestines). Johnson. (more info) bælig, bag, bellows, belly; akin to Icel. belgr bag, bellows, Sw. bälg, Dan. bælg, D. & G. balg, cf. W. bol the paunch or belly, dim. 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. Dunglison. 2. The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly. Underneath the belly of their steeds. Shak. 3. The womb. Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee. Jer. i. 5. 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. Jonah ii. 2.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BELLY)

• Abdomen
• Belly
• paunch

Related words: (words related to BELLY)

• PAUNCH
  The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.
• 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.
• 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.
• PAUNCHY
  Pot-bellied. Dickens.
• BELLYBOUND
  Costive; constipated.
• BELLYACHE
  Pain in the bowels; colic.
• ABDOMEN
  The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm
• REDBELLY
  The char.
• POT-BELLY
  A protuberant belly.
• SAWBELLY
  The alewife.
• POST-ABDOMEN
  That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called abdomen.
• GOR-BELLY
  A prominent belly; a big-bellied person.
• WHITEBELLY
  The American widgeon, or baldpate. The prairie chicken.
• SPECKLED-BELLY
  The gadwall.
• SWAGBELLY
  Any large tumor developed in the abdomen, and neither fluctuating nor sonorous. Dunglison. (more info) 1. A prominent, overhanging belly. Smollett.