Word Meanings - BELLYFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough. Lloyd. King James told his son that he would have his bellyful of parliamentary impeachments. Johnson.
Related words: (words related to BELLYFUL)
- GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - JAMESTOWN WEED
The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium , a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura. Note: This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum. - GREAT-GRANDSON
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter. - LLOYD'S
Look; see; behold; observe. " Lo, here is Christ." Matt. xxiv. 23. " Lo, we turn to the Gentiles." Acts xiii. 46. (more info) 1. An association of underwriters and others in London, for the collection and diffusion of marine intelligence, - ABUNDANCE
An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been - GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity. - 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. - GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother. - WOULDINGNESS
Willingness; desire. - GREATLY
1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden. - JAMESONITE
A steel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron. - JAMES'S POWDER
Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder. - GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter. - GREATEN
To become large; to dilate. My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning. - WOULD-BE
' (as, a would-be poet. - GREAT-GRANDCHILD
The child of one's grandson or granddaughter. - GREATNESS
1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon. - PARLIAMENTARY
1. Of or pertaining to Parliament; as, parliamentary authority. Bacon. 2. Enacted or done by Parliament; as, a parliamentary act. Sir M. Hale. 3. According to the rules and usages of Parliament or of deliberative bodies; as, a parliamentary motion. - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - HEREHENCE
From hence. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - THENCEFROM
From that place. - ENOUGH
Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17. (more info) (akin - THENCE
see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark - ARCHENCEPHALA
The division that includes man alone. R. Owen. - THENCEFORTH
From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.