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Belly

noun

(pl. bellies)

The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis. Synonyms: abdomen, stomach, venter.

A protruding abdomen. Synonym: paunch.

A part that bulges deeply.

The hollow inside of something.

The underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish.

verb

(past & past part. bellied; pres. part. bellying)

Swell out or bulge out. Synonym: belly out.

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... before the horses were stalled properly, and presently there were officers and men and horses all sick together in the belly of the ship, with chests and bales and barrels broken loose among us. The this-and-that-way motion of the ship caused horses to fall down, and men were too sick to help them up again. I myself lay amid ...

— Hira Singh - When India came to fight in Flanders • Talbot Mundy

... on each side to bear it up, And a belly for the gurgling wine. Its neck was slender, and its mouth was wide, And its lip was curled ...

— Sword Blades and Poppy Seed • Amy Lowell

... half-hidden among laurels, as she stretches forth the fruit of the Fall to shrinking Adam. No one but Tintoretto, till we come to Blake, could have imagined yonder Jonah, summoned by the beck of God from the whale's belly. The monstrous fish rolls over in the ocean, blowing portentous vapour from his trump-shaped nostril. The prophet's beard descends upon his naked breast in hoary ringlets to the girdle. He has forgotten the past peril of the deep, although ...

— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds

... boldly, he made a circuit and crawled up to it on his belly; and lay for some time, listening intently, with his ear to the door. He felt convinced that no one was there; but to make sure he knocked, and then withdrew among the trees. But all was still and, feeling sure now that the place was untenanted, he removed the piece of turf from the ...

— A Final Reckoning - A Tale of Bush Life in Australia • G. A. Henty

... believe me—jammed full o' little brown men, deader than door nails. They died a fighting, all right, an' they sure gave us a belly full that day. Lost ...

— Gordon Craig - Soldier of Fortune • Randall Parrish

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