NAVEL

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus. See Umbilicus.belly button in humans

2.
n.

The central part or point of anything; the middle. Within the navel of this hideous wood, Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells. Milton.

3.
n.

An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage. Navel gall, a bruise on the top of the chine of the back of a horse, behind the saddle. Johnson. -- Navel point. (Her.) Same as Nombril.


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