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rs from the French chanson, and the Italian canzone, all three being national. The German Lied is perhaps the most faithful reflection of the national sentiment. Grove.

Lit., wreath of songs; -- used as the title of a group of songs, and esp. as the common name for German vocal clubs of men.

A popular name for any society or club which meets for the practice of male part songs.

United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.

By application. [R.]

, 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.]

Darkened. See Colly, v. t.

Completely armed; panoplied. Tennyson.

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

Worried; flurried; frightened. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Bog-bellied. [Obs.]

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

Virtually involved or included; involved in substance; inferential; tacitly conceded; -- the correlative of express, or expressed. See Imply.

By implication or inference. Bp. Montagu.

Brought to the state or consistence of jelly.

Covered with, or having many, lilies. By sandy Ladon's lilied banks. Milton.

Wrongly allied or associated.

A great medieval German epic of unknown authorship containing traditions which refer to the Burgundians at the time of Attila (called Etzel in the poem) and mythological elements pointing to heathen times.