Word Meanings - BELLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time. Johnson.

Related words: (words related to BELLING)

• RUTTISH
  Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious. Shak. -- Rut"tish*ness, n.
• BELLOWS
  An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the
• JOHNSONIANISM
  A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.
• JOHNSONESE
  The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.
• RUTTLE
  A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty of breathing; a rattle.
• BELLOW
  bellen, and perh. to L. flere to weep, OSlav. bleja to bleat, Lith. 1. To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull. 2. To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor. Dryden. 3. To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud,
• JOHNSON GRASS
  A tall perennial grass , valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.
• RUTTER
  A horseman or trooper. Such a regiment of rutters Never defied men braver. Beau. & Fl.
• JOHNSONIAN
  Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated.
• RUTTIER
  A chart of a course, esp. at sea.
• BELLOWER
  One who, or that which, bellows.
• RUTTY
  Ruttish; lustful.
• RUTTERKIN
  An old crafty fox or beguiler -- a word of contempt. Cotgrave.
• BELLOWS FISH
  A European fish , distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.
• STRUTTING
  from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv.
• REBELLOW
  To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow. The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook. Dryden.
• STRUTTER
  One who struts.
• TUTTI-FRUTTI
  A confection of different kinds of preserved fruits. -- a.
• TRUTTACEOUS
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trout; as, fish of the truttaceous kind.
• WATER BELLOWS
  See TROMP