Definition of belly

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Belly (n.) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back..

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Sawbelly :: Sawbelly (n.) The alewife.
Womb :: Womb (n.) The belly; the abdomen.
Pot-belly :: Pot-belly (n.) A protuberant belly.
Redbelly :: Redbelly (n.) The char.
Charge :: Charge (v. i.) To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.
Bellyband :: Bellyband (n.) A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail..
Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
Fish-bellied :: Fish-bellied (a.) Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail..
Gastrostege :: Gastrostege (n.) One of the large scales on the belly of a serpent.
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..
Pipefish :: Pipefish (n.) Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place..
Tripe :: Tripe (n.) The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural..
Copperhead :: Copperhead (n.) A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper..
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..
Abdominous :: Abdominous (a.) Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied.
Tympanites :: Tympanites (n.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.
Reptile :: Reptile (n.) An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like..
Venter :: Venter (n.) A belly, or protuberant part; a broad surface; as, the venter of a muscle; the venter, or anterior surface, of the scapula..
Tympany :: Tympany (n.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites.
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell..
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