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Having the sinews under the belly shrunk by excessive fatigue.

strain. Spilling line (Naut.), a rope used for spilling, or dislodging, the wind from the belly of a sail. Totten.

. Who kept Jonas in the fish's maw Till he was spouted up at Ninivee Chaucer. Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . . He spouts the tide. Creech.

To swell; to bulge out. [R.] The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. Dryden.

A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.

To sink down by its weight; to sag. Sir H. Wotton. I swag as a fat person's belly swaggeth as he goeth. Palsgrave.

Having a prominent, overhanging belly. Shak.

us gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, or throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.

To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.

us yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white. When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal tiger, and Bengal tiger.

The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural. Howell.

Having a large, protuberant belly, or one shaped like a tun; pot-bellied.

A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.

A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites. Fuller.

disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer's glands. The virus, or contagion, of this fever is supposed to be a microscopic vegetable organism, or bacterium. Called also ent…

A lock of wool hanging under the belly of a sheep.

A European aquatic toad (Bombinator igneus). Its back is dark; its belly is marked with crimson. Called also feuerkröte.

The belly; the abdomen; -- sometimes applied to any large cavity containing viscera.

Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; -- opposed to Ant: dorsal.

r Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green, finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish white.