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

Flabelliform.

The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance. Dunglison.

Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.

Having many nerves diverging radiately from the base; -- said of a leaf.

A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers. Shipley.

A tax, especially on salt. [France] Brande & C.

A gabeler. Carlyle.

One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses. Brande & C.

The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon. -- Gla*bel"lar, a.

The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See Trilobite.

Bog-bellied. [Obs.]

A prominent belly; a big-bellied person. [Obs.]

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

See Harebell.

A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans, which has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell. [Written also hairbell.] E'en the light harebell raised its head. Sir W. Scott .

Not warlike or martial. [Obs.] R. Junius.

A favorite sweet American grape of a purple color. See Fox grape, under Fox.

A common American moth (Pyrrharctia isabella), of an isabella color. The larva, called woolly bear and hedgehog caterpillar, is densely covered with hairs, which are black at each end of the body, and red in the middle part.

A brownish yellow color.