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urposes, 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 bellows. See Hydrostatic. -- A pair of bellows, the ordinary household instrument for blowing fires, consistin…

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.

Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. Gray.

Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.

Flabellate on both sides.

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

A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.

See Bonnibel. [Obs.] Spenser.