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A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid. [Obs.] Spenser.

Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial. [Obs.] "Bellic Cæsar." Feltham.

Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious. Arnold was, in fact, in a bellicose vein. W. Irving.

In a bellicose manner.

Bellicose. [Obs.]

, a. Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.

The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.

Waging war; carrying on war. "Belligerent powers." E. Everett.

In a belligerent manner; hostilely.

A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time. Johnson.

Mighty in war; armipotent. [R.] Blount.

A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton.

Lead colic.

The goddess of war.

in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound. The bellowing voice of boiling seas. Dryden.

One who, or that which, bellows.

rposes, 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, consisting…

an 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.