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Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.

Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron; as, (a) The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

being wet or watery; wateriness. Huxley. Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly. Holland.

y bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics. Tyndale. Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. Fuller.

, a. Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.

Having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon; advanced in pregnancy.

The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

Having a ruptured belly. [R.]

The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard. Totten.

tines in mammals; the great omentum See Omentum. The caul serves for warming of the lower belly. Ray.

To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.

A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.

notortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper.

To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep. Milton.

Having a full crop or belly; satiated. Milton.

A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly.

With joy; gladly; -- with wold. He would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat. Luke xv. 16. Fain Would I woo her, yet I dare not. Shak.

Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail. Knight.

One of the large scales on the belly of a serpent.

The measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything. He's a lu sty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth. Addison.