bellynoun/ˈbɛli/

• 1

  The abdomen (especially a fat one).

  • You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.
• 2

  stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion)

  • My belly was full of wine.
• 3

  anatomymedicinesciencesuterus (a reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth)

  • Before I formed thee in the bellie, I knew thee; […]
• 4

  The lower fuselage of an airplane.

  • There was no heat, and we shivered in the belly of the plane.
• 5

  The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).

  • the belly of a flask, muscle, violin, sail, or ship
  • […] I cried by reason of mine affliction vnto the Lord, and hee heard mee; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voyce.
• 6

  The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).

• 7

  architectureThe part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).

bellyverb/ˈbɛli/

• 1

  To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.

  • Bellying forward to the edge of the clearing, he found Hans, lying on his face, feathered with arrows like a porcupine.
• 2

  To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.

  • The Pow'r appeaſ'd, with Winds ſuffic'd the Sail, / The bellying Canvaſs ſtrutted with the Gale; […]
  • The halliards twanged against the tops, the bunting bellied broad,
• 3

  To cause to swell out; to fill.

  • Your breath of full consent bellied his sails; […]
  • A breeze which had crossed a thousand miles of wheat-lands bellied her taffeta skirt in a line so graceful, so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistfulness over her quality of suspended freedom.