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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.

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

A protuberant belly.

The char.

The alewife. [Local, U.S.]

The gadwall. [Local, U.S.]

A prominent, overhanging belly. Smollett.

The American widgeon, or baldpate.

The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvi…

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

Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.

A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.