Definition of belly

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Belly (n.) 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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Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell..
Great-bellied :: Great-bellied (a.) Having a great belly; bigbellied; pregnant; teeming.
Krait :: Krait (n.) A very venomous snake of India (Bungarus coeruleus), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish..
Big-bellied :: Big-bellied (a.) Having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon; advanced in pregnancy..
Abdomen :: Abdomen (n.) 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 and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity..
Angor :: Angor (n.) Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression..
Kite :: Kite (n.) The belly.
Bellied :: Bellied (a.) Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied..
Grovel :: Grovel (adv.) To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl..
Belly-pinched :: Belly-pinched (a.) Pinched with hunger; starved.
Sinew-shrunk :: Sinew-shrunk (a.) Having the sinews under the belly shrunk by excessive fatigue.
Sulphureity :: Sulphur-bottom (n.) A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale..
Queenfish :: Queenfish (n.) A California sciaenoid food fish (Seriphys politus). The back is bluish, and the sides and belly bright silvery. Called also kingfish..
Belly :: Belly (v. i.) To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge..
Gastro- :: Gastro- () A combining form from the Gr. /, /, the stomach, or belly; as in gastrocolic, gastrocele, gastrotomy..
Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
Swagbelly :: Swag-bellied (a.) Having a prominent, overhanging belly..
Charge :: Charge (v. i.) To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.
Sweetbread :: Sweetbread (n.) Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus..
Tympanites :: Tympanites (n.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.
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