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. 

The bellying walls came closer and closer to its rim.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martian Way]

His gaudy shirt filled like a sail bellying with wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mad Ship]

And nothing says that quite like bellying up and sharing a brew.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 30, 2008] Reference

On the surface of the sea a few white sails were bellying in the breeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robur the Conqueror] Reference

He almost sobbed it, bellying over to fumble his glasses out of his shoe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Brothers]

The apex gaped and residual hot air vomited from bellying scarlet fabric.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Torc]

Sea-gulls white as the bellying sails, tilted against the wind in the sunshine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

You could try the age-old method: bellying up to the bar at the local watering hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Ways To Spy On The Competition] Reference

Conan tossed aside his bellying black cloak and drew his heavy Aquilonian broadsword.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan Of The Isles]

"It's going to rain like the very devil, " Sharpe glanced up at the bellying dark clouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Waterloo]

But now British researchers say some mothers could be bellying up to the bar; in moderation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2007] Reference

I did likewise, and noticed that the canvas was bellying forward, which showed that we were not aback.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference

Emma Wasserstein stands up and walks heavily toward the jury box, bellying up to the polished railing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing Acts]

The thatch of the roof was old, dried from a fine summer, bellying loosely between its supporting beams.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heretic's Apprentice]

Cochrane glowered at the approaching boat which, under a bellying red sail, contained a dozen uniformed men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Devil]

But if he does, he will find plenty of grateful and happy companions eager to join him, bellying up to the bar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Brustein: If Bush Had Been Drinking at Fallujah] Reference

I can live with the 20 percent, as long as you ` re not, you know, bellying up to the bar of socialism and evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2007] Reference

Yards bristling with my gallant crew, My ports flung wide, my guns displayed, My tall spars hid in bellying sail! —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference

Once more they were afloat, and the brave little vessel bounded gaily over the waves, her canvas bellying in the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from the Odyssey] Reference

But I want to get to that video that we showed just a second ago, and that was Senator Clinton bellying up to the bar.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2008] Reference

What he saw was a scarcely distinguishable flat hull and a slender rectangle of sail which a fierce wind was bellying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biologist's Quest] Reference

One was short, the other tall, but both had great protruding stomachs bellying the blue cloth of their long uniform coats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time and Again]

They tried to cling to them so as to reach the top, but the bellying shape of the great masses rendered all hold impossible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salammbo] Reference

A big, black schooner, a mountain of bellying whiteness superimposed upon a tiny streak of hull, was standing off for the Long.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool There Was] Reference

ACOSTA (voice-over): Government watchdogs say members of Congress are bellying up to the taxpayer trough at near-record levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2007] Reference

ACOSTA (voice-over): Government watch dogs say members of Congress are bellying up to the taxpayer trough at near record levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2007] Reference

But, the authorities maintain that the political risk of the country is often over-rated "" bellying the experience on the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistan: a choice for outsourcing] Reference

Remembering the back-breaking loads he had carried to the cabin, Harlan grinned back at the bellying sail behind him as he sped along.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

And how many more of these Heloise-like helpful-hint stories can we take before we go bellying up to the local coffee bar out of spite?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yvette Kantrow: The Wall Street Journal Helps to Find Your Inner Scrooge] Reference

We also read about financial institutions bellying-up and big banks being weighed down by subprime home-loans and esoteric derivatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Chautin: Commercial Real Estate Is an Impending Disaster] Reference