Word Meanings - BELLIED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• PUFF-LEGGED
  Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs.
• PUFFINESS
  The quality or state of being puffy.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• BELLING
  A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time. Johnson.
• PUFF-LEG
  Any one of numerous species of beautiful humming birds of the genus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• PUFFERY
  The act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant commendation.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• PUFFING
  a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t. Puffing adder. Same as Puff adder , under Puff. -- Puffing pig , the common porpoise.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• BELLYCHEER
  Good cheer; viands. "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.
• BELLIC; BELLICAL
  Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial. "Bellic Cæsar." Feltham.
• PUFF
  1. A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff. " To every puff of wind a slave." Flatman. 2. Anything light and filled with air. Specifically: A puffball. kind of light
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• BELLYBAND
  A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail. (more info) 1. A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth. 2. A band of flannel or other cloth about the belly.
• BELLICOUS
  Bellicose.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• SABELLIANISM
  The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.
• CORBELING; CORBELLING
  Corbel work or the construction of corbels; a series of corbels or piece of continuous corbeled masonry, sometimes of decorative purpose, as in the stalactite ornament of the Moslems.
• KOBELLITE
  A blackish gray mineral, a sulphide of antimony, bismuth, and lead.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• EMBELLISH
  To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors. Syn. -- To adorn; beautify; deck;
• FLABELLIFORM
  Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.
• SABELLIAN
  Pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.
• REDBELLY
  The char.