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Webster 1828 Edition
Bellying
BEL'LYING
,ppr.
Definition 2024
bellying
bellying
English
Verb
bellying
- present participle of belly
Adjective
bellying (not comparable)
- bulging
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- Did it change into the cry of the wind, plaintive at first, angrily shrill as it freshened, rising to a tearing whistle, sinking to a musical trickle of air from the leech of the bellying sail?
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
Noun
bellying (plural bellyings)
- The act of bulging or swelling.
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
- One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellyings of that blackness advancing headlong, towering heavenward, turning the twilight to a palpable darkness […]
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds