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ng deified and honored as the chief good; an object of supreme regard. Whose god is their belly. Phil. iii. 19.

To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel. Ainsworth.

Having a great belly, bigbellied; pregnant; teeming. Shak.

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. To creep and grovel on the ground. Dryden.

A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.

The belly. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish.

two long, slender, plumelike feathers on the head. The throat and sides are chestnut; the belly is brown with transverse bars of black and white; the neck and breast are dark gray. -- Mountain range, a series of mountains closely related in position and direction. -- Mountain rice. (Bot.) (a) An upland variety of ric…

the male are developed into sharp tusks, curved downward. The male has scent bags on the belly, from which the musk of commerce is derived. The deer is yellow or red-brown above, whitish below. The pygmy musk deer are chevrotains, as the kanchil and napu. -- Musk duck. (Zoöl.) (a) The Muscovy duck. (b) An Australian…

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

The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.

tes. 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.

Having a protuberant belly, like the bottom of a pot.

A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.

A California sciænoid food fish (Seriphys politus). The back is bluish, and the sides and belly bright silvery. Called also kingfish.

Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.

ctatus) having a white ring around the neck. The back is ash- colored, or sage green, the belly of an orange red. -- Ring stopper. (Naut.) See under Stopper. -- Ring thrush (Zoöl.), the ring ousel. -- The prize ring, the ring in which prize fighters contend; prize fighters, collectively. -- The ring. (a) The body o…

having the back, head, neck, and breast black glossed with blue, the wings black, and the belly white. -- Ragged robin. (Bot.) See under Ragged. -- Robin accentor (Zoöl.), a small Asiatic singing bird (Accentor rubeculoides), somewhat resembling the European robin. -- Robin redbreast. (Zoöl.) (a) The European robin.…

lænoptera physalus). It has a dorsal fin, and strong longitudinal folds on the throat and belly. Called also razorback.

A bony scale of a reptile or fish; a large horny scale on the leg of a bird, or on the belly of a snake.