Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BEL'LI-ED, pp.

In composition, swelled or prominent, like the belly.

BEL-LIG'ER-ENT, a. [L. belliger, warlike; belligero, to wage war; from bellum, war, and gero, to wage; part. gerens, gerentis, waging. Gr. πολεμος, war; W. bel, war, tumult; bela, to war, to wrangle.]

Waging war; carrying on war; as, a belligerent nation.

BEL-LIG'ER-ENT, n.

A nation, power, or state, carrying on war.

BEL-LIG'ER-OUS, a.

The same as Belligerent. [Not used.]

BELL'ING, n. [Sax. bellan, to bellow.]

1. The noise of a roe in rutting time; a huntsman's term. Dict.
2. adj. Growing or forming like a bell; growing full and ripe; used of hops; from bell. Ash.

BEL-LIP'O-TENT, a. [L. bellum, war, and potens, powerful, bellipotens.]

Powerful or mighty in war. [Little used.] Dict.

BEL-LIQUE', a. [bellee'k; Old Fr.]

Warlike. [Not used.] Feltham.

BELL'LESS, a.

Having no bell. Scott.

BELL'MAN, n. [bell and man.]

A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of any thing in the streets.

BELL'MET-AL, n. [bell and metal.]

A mixture of copper and tin, in the proportion of about ten parts of copper to one of tin, or according to Thomson, three parts to one, and usually a small portion of brass or zink; used for making bells. Encyc.

BEL'LON, n.

A disease, attended with languor and intolerable griping of the bowels, common in places where lead ore is smelted. Encyc.

BEL-LO'NA, n. [from L. bellum, war.]

The goddess of war. Ant. Mythol.

BEL'LOW, n.

A loud outcry; roar.

BEL'LOW, v.i. [Sax. bulgian, bylgean; W. ballaw; L. balo; D. bulken; Sw. bäla; Sax. bellan, to bawl. See Bawl.]

1. To make a hollow, loud noise, as a bull; to make a loud outcry; to roar. In contempt, to vociferate or clamor.
2. To roar, as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound. Dryden.

BEL'LOW-ING, n.

A loud hollow sound or roar. Herbert.

BEL'LOW-ING, ppr.

Making a loud hollow sound, as a bull, or as the roaring of billows.

BEL'LOWS, n. [sing. and plur. Sax. bilig or bylig, bellows; and bilig, bylg, a blown bladder, a bottle; Goth. balgs, bylg, bylga, a mail or budget; L. bulga; Ir. builg, bolg, a bellows; Ger. balg, a skin; blasebalg, a bellows, that is a blow-skin; D. blaasbalg; Sw. bläsbalg; Dan. blæsebelg. See Blaze. The word is properly in the singular number, Goth. balgs, but is used also in the plural. It seems to be the same word as the L. follis, and probably from shooting out, swelling, or driving. W. bal.]

An instrument, utensil, or machine for blowing fire, either in, private dwellings or in forges, furnaces and shops. It is so formed as by being dilated andcontracted, to inhale air by a lateral orifice which is opened and closed with a valve, and to propel it through a tube upon the fire.

BEL'LOWS-FISH, n.

The trumpet-fish, about four inches long, with a long snout; whence its name. Dict. of Nat. Hist.

BELL'PEP-PER, n. [bell and pepper.]

A name of the Guinea pepper, a species of Capsicum. This is the red pepper of the gardens, and most proper for pickling. Encyc.

BELL'RING-ER, n.

One whose business is to ring a church or other bell.

BELL'SHAPED, a. [bell and shaped.]

Having the form of a bell. Botany.

BEL'LU-INE, a. [L. belluinus, from bellua, a beast.]

Beastly; pertaining to or like a beast; brutal. [Little used.] Atterbury.

BELL'WETHER, n. [bell and wether.]

A wether or sheep which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.

BELL'WORT, n.

A plant, the Uvularia. Muhlenberg.

BEL'LY, n. [Ir. bolg, the belly, a bag, pouch, budget, blister, bellows; W. boly, the belly, whence boliaw, to belly, to gorge; Arm. boelcu, bowels. The primary sense is swelled, or a swell.]

1. That part of the human body which extends from the breast to the thighs, containing the bowels. It is called also the abdomen or lower belly, to distinguish it from the head and breast, which are sometimes called bellies, from their cavity. Quincy.
2. The part of a beast corresponding to the human belly.
3. The womb. Jer. i. 5.
4. The receptacle of food; that which requires food in opposition to the back. Whose God is their belly. Phil. iii.
5. The part of any thing which resembles the human belly in protuberance or cavity, as of a harp or a bottle.
6. Any hollow inclosed place; as, the belly of hell, in Jonah.
7. In Scripture, belly is used for the heart. Prov. xviii. 8. xx. 30. John vii. 38. Carnal lusts, sensual pleasures. Rom. xvi. 18. Phil. iii. 19. The whole man. Tit. i. 12. Brown. Cruden.