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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.

Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.

Flabellate on both sides.

Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.

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

Formed of two plates, as the stigma of the Mimulus; also, having two elevated ridges, as in the lip of certain flowers.

Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc.

A truck for railroad rolling stock, consisting of two ordinary axle boxes sliding in guides attached to a triangular frame; -- called also pony truck.

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

A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.

A bomb. See Bomb, n.