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n, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. Bellows camera, in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows. -- Hydrostatic bello…

ean fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.

Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal. [R.] Animal and belluine life. Atterbury.

A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.

A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.

The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly. Underneath the belly of their steeds. Shak.

One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.

Pinched with hunger; starved. "The belly-pinched wolf." Shak.

Pain in the bowels; colic.

A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth.

Costive; constipated.

An apron or covering for the front of the person. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Good cheer; viands. [Obs.] "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.

great abundance; more than enough. Lloyd. King James told his son that he would have his bellyful of parliamentary impeachments. Johnson.

To lock, or fasten as with a lock. [Obs.] Shak.

eans of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future. Encyc. Brit.

To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.

That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak.

Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.

Of or pertaining to Beloochistan, or to its inhabitants. -- n.