'Belly' definitions:
Definition of 'belly'
From: WordNet
noun
The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis [syn: abdomen, venter, stomach, belly]
noun
A protruding abdomen [syn: belly, paunch]
noun
A part that bulges deeply; "the belly of a sail"
noun
The hollow inside of something; "in the belly of the ship"
noun
The underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish
verb
Swell out or bulge out [syn: belly, belly out]
Definition of 'Belly'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Belly'
From: GCIDE
- Belly \Bel"ly\ (b[e^]l"l[y^]), n.; pl. Bellies (-l[i^]z). [OE. bali, bely, AS. belg, b[ae]lg, b[ae]lig, bag, bellows, belly; akin to Icel. belgr bag, bellows, Sw. b[aum]lg, Dan. b[ae]lg, D. & G. balg, cf. W. bol the paunch or belly, dim. boly, Ir. bolg. Cf. Bellows, Follicle, Fool, Bilge.]
- 1. That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly. [1913 Webster]
- Underneath the belly of their steeds. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The womb. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee. --Jer. i. 5. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Out of the belly of hell cried I. --Jonah ii. 2. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Arch.) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [Ludicrous] --Prior.
- Belly worm, a worm that breeds or lives in the belly (stomach or intestines). --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Belly'
From: GCIDE
- Belly \Bel"ly\, v. i. To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge. [1913 Webster]
- The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Belly'
From: Easton
- Belly the seat of the carnal affections (Titus 1:12; Phil. 3:19; Rom. 16:18). The word is used symbolically for the heart (Prov. 18:8; 20:27; 22:18, marg.). The "belly of hell" signifies the grave or underworld (Jonah 2:2).
Synonyms of 'belly'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abdomen,
- abomasum,
- ascender,
- back,
- bag,
- balloon,
- bastard type,
- bay window,
- beard,
- bed,
- bedrock,
- beerbelly,
- belly out,
- bevel,
- bilge,
- billow,
- black letter,
- body,
- bottom,
- bottom side,
- bouge,
- breadbasket,
- breech,
- bug,
- bulge,
- buttocks,
- cap,
- capital,
- case,
- convexity,
- counter,
- craw,
- crop,
- cylindricality,
- descender,
- diaphragm,
- dilate,
- distend,
- downside,
- em,
- embonpoint,
- en,
- face,
- fat-faced type,
- feet,
- first stomach,
- font,
- fundament,
- gizzard,
- globosity,
- globularity,
- goggle,
- groove,
- gullet,
- gut,
- hardpan,
- honeycomb stomach,
- italic,
- kishkes,
- letter,
- ligature,
- logotype,
- lower case,
- lower side,
- lowest layer,
- lowest level,
- majuscule,
- manyplies,
- maw,
- midriff,
- minuscule,
- nether side,
- nethermost level,
- nick,
- omasum,
- orbicularity,
- paunch,
- pi,
- pica,
- point,
- pooch,
- pop,
- pot,
- potbelly,
- potgut,
- pouch,
- pout,
- print,
- psalterium,
- pusgut,
- rennet bag,
- reticulum,
- rock bottom,
- roman,
- rotundity,
- rotundness,
- round out,
- roundness,
- rumen,
- sans serif,
- script,
- second stomach,
- shank,
- shoulder,
- small cap,
- small capital,
- spare tire,
- sphericality,
- sphericalness,
- sphericity,
- spheroidicity,
- spheroidity,
- stamp,
- stem,
- stomach,
- substratum,
- swagbelly,
- swell,
- swell out,
- third stomach,
- tum-tum,
- tummy,
- type,
- type body,
- type class,
- type lice,
- typecase,
- typeface,
- typefounders,
- typefoundry,
- underbelly,
- underlayer,
- underneath,
- underside,
- upper case,
- venter,
- ventripotence
Words containing 'Belly'
- Bellied,
- Bellies,
- Bellying,
- bellis,
- belly out,
- belly up,
- Amphispiza Belli,
- Bellis perennis,
- Belly doublet,
- Belly fretting,
- Belly timber,
- Belly worm,
- Casus belli,
- beer belly,
- belly button,
- belly dance,
- belly dancer,
- belly dancing,
- belly flop,
- belly flopper,
- belly laugh,
- belly sweetbread,
- belly up to the bar,
- belly whop,
- belly whopper,
- belly-up,
- genus bellis,
- great bellied,
- pork belly,
- Belly-god,
- Belly-pinched,
- Big-bellied,
- Broken-bellied,
- Fish-bellied,
- Gor-bellied,
- Gor-belly,
- Great-bellied,
- Pot-bellied,
- Pot-belly,
- Speckled-belly,
- Swag-bellied,
- Tun-bellied,
- belly-flop,
- belly-land,
- belly-laugh,
- blue-belly,
- copper-belly,
- empty-bellied,
- exotic belly dancer,
- flat-bellied,
- go belly-up,
- yellow-bellied,
- Red-bellied perch,
- blue-bellied lorikeet,
- blue-bellied parrot,
- fire-bellied toad,
- red-bellied snake,
- red-bellied terrapin,
- red-bellied turtle,
- white-bellied swallow,
- yellow-bellied sapsucker,
- yellow-bellied terrapin