Adjective : big-bellied. ,a bellied sail. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : the belly of a ship. ,the belly of a flask. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : Wind bellied the sails. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : Sails bellying in the wind. ,soldiers bellying through a rice paddy. From Dictionary.com.
A couple of construction workers bellied up to the bar. From Wordnik.com. [OUT ON THE EDGE OF VICTORIAN CIVILIZATION] Reference
Yellow-bellied Terrapin is found from Virginia to Georgia. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
Who payeth for the striped-backed and spotted-bellied beasts?. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
Owl, 2; Hairy Woodpecker, 6; Downy Woodpecker, 30; Red-bellied. From Wordnik.com. [The Bird Study Book] Reference
Black-bellied Tree Duck standing beside a reservoir in southern. From Wordnik.com. [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference
He's noted for mercilessly satirizing his pot-bellied countrymen. From Wordnik.com. [True Value] Reference
The "Robbin, a bobbin, the big-bellied Ben" parody alluded to Dan. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
Redskins, movie stars and politicians still bellied up for a brew. From Wordnik.com. [SUDDENLY WIDOWED AND FIGHTING THE IRS] Reference
A pot-bellied Man, with a pack at his back, and a pouch by his side. From Wordnik.com. [Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.] Reference
Woodpecker, 1; Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 2; Northern Flicker, 9; Blue. From Wordnik.com. [The Bird Study Book] Reference
The Red-bellied Water Snake is found in the east, but not north of Virginia. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
The metal had bellied out in a six-foot hole into the storage hold beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Gold in the Sky] Reference
The owner, John S. Modica, says he would throw in the llamas and pot-bellied pigs. From Wordnik.com. [For Sale: T. Rex, Good Condition, Woolly Mammoth, Needs Repair] Reference
The giant bank now known as Citi bellied up to the bailout bar again on Monday morning. From Wordnik.com. [Ills de la Citi] Reference
But then for once they click, finding shared delight in suckling lambs and pot-bellied pigs. From Wordnik.com. [Flesh and Blood] Reference
"You're a draft-dodging, yellow-bellied liar," shouted a woman just yards from the president. From Wordnik.com. [Next Year's Model] Reference
The pot-bellied shirtless man introduced himself as Robert and said we had a cow problem here. From Wordnik.com. [Meridian (excerpt)] Reference
"There I am," he wrote, "knock-kneed and toddler-bellied, not reaching up to my granddad's waist.". From Wordnik.com. [The readers' room: what you thought of G2 this week] Reference
Because someone had to: A spoof of "California Gurls" featuring some gloriously pot-bellied dudes. From Wordnik.com. [HUFFPOST HILL - JULY 26TH, 2010] Reference
"They are here," said the fortune-teller, drawing a large pot-bellied black bottle from under her cloak. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
Would somebody please tell me what's so special about a guy who turns into a pot-bellied pig on Thursdays?. From Wordnik.com. [Fake Book Review] Reference
I bellied up to the table as well, as it had been a few days since I'd eaten anything other than Ramen noodles. From Wordnik.com. [Roomies] Reference
Once dashing and athletic, the 68-year-old Connolly was stooped and pot-bellied in his bright-red prison jumpsuit. From Wordnik.com. [A Sequel to ‘The Departed’] Reference
Miller (1955a: 166) reported this Yellow-bellied Sapsucker as a winter visitant or migrant in the Sierra del Carmen. From Wordnik.com. [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference
There is another kind of swift, the "white-bellied swift," which has, on a few occasions, been noticed in this country. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
And the sails were bellied out by the wind, and far from the coast were they joyfully borne past the Posideian headland. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
Dole talks to him periodically on the phone, and most of them bellied up to the microphone on his now canceled radio show. From Wordnik.com. [A Pilgrimage To Perot] Reference
There will be an old Hard-shell clock resurrected, with throat whiskers, and wearing a shad-bellied coat and flap breeches. From Wordnik.com. [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference
"In that bottle," answered the Wondersmith, pointing to the pot-bellied black bottle that Madame Filomel had brought with her. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
However, before the bit of canvas bellied out and I had dashed back to the helm, the first wave broke over the stern of the sloop. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
The goldsmith is condemned, but by a ruse succeeds in getting a wholly innocent fat-bellied Mohammedan trader executed in his place. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
Thus invoked, there toddled into the room the master of the tavern -- a round-bellied, short-legged individual, whose rosy gills and. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
Open and honourable is my method of war, nor waged with big-bellied women, but against men and arms; and treason is none of my weapons. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
I pick a svelte brunette as my first target, and make my move past a pot-bellied desk jockey who'd obviously prefer to be at Wendy's. From Wordnik.com. [Celery: Viva Veggie Viagra!] Reference
With him they are gouty, big-bellied, heavy of limb and scandalously stout; with me they are thin, wasp-waisted, and terrible to the foe. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
I could picture the bearded, pot-bellied mailman crouched in his uniform shorts at the chain-link fence that boxes in my small front yard. From Wordnik.com. [Speak] Reference
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