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

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

Having a ruptured belly. [R.]

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

Bog-bellied. [Obs.]

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

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

Having a prominent, overhanging belly. Shak.

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

Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.

Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied.

The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover.

To cause to swell out; to fill. [R.] Your breath of full consent bellied his sails. Shak.

The black-bellied plover (Squatarola helvetica); -- called also beetlehead.

The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus).

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

The American redbellied snipe (Macrorhamphus scolopaceus); -- called also long-billed dowitcher.

Pot-bellied. [R.] Dickens.

h, the cunner. -- Gray perch, the fresh-water drum. -- Red perch, the rosefish. -- Red-bellied perch, the long-eared pondfish. -- Perch pest, a small crustacean, parasitic in the mouth of the perch. -- Silver perch, the yellowtail. -- Stone, or Striped, perch, the pope. -- White perch, the Roccus, or Morone, Ame…

its presence indicates to mariners their approach to these islands. Crabb. (b) The black-bellied plover. [Local, U.S.] -- Pilot boat, a strong, fast-sailing boat used to carry and receive pilots as they board and leave vessels. -- Pilot bread, ship biscuit. -- Pilot cloth, a coarse, stout kind of cloth for overcoats…