bell-rope 
bell-rope (iici'rdp), 
n. 1. A rope for 
ringing a bell. 2. 
A bell-cord. 
bell-rose (bel'roz), 
ii. \ name some- 
times used for the 
daffodil, \ttrcismiM 
Pteudo-Narelagtti. 
bell-screw ()!'- 
skrd), //. A rod or 
bar of iron with an 
internally threaded 
bell-shaped cud, for 
recovering broken 
or lost tools in a 
deep bore-hole. 
Bell s disease, finch. 
Contemporaneous. Americ 
See 
_ .-, t'nirli. 
bell-shaped (bel'shiipt), <i. Having the form 
of a bell, or of a somewhat deep vessel whose 
lip turns out and then begins to turn in again; 
specifically, in hot., campanulate. See cut 
under ( 'inii/niniila. Bell-shaped pa- 
rabola, ii divergent paruhoht having nei- 
ther cruiiodc nor cusp. Some geometri- 
cians, without sufficient reiwo - author- 
ity, restrict the name to those divergent 
parabolas to which from some points of 
the plane six real tautens IMII tic drawn. 
Pure bell-shaped parabola, one which 
constitutes tin- entire real part of a cubic 
curve of tile sixth class. 
bell-sound (bel'sound), n. In aus- 
cultation, a peculiar sound indica- 
tive of pneumothorax. It may be 
observed by applying a small piece of 
metal, as a coin, to the affected part of the 
chest, and striking it with a second piece, 
when a clear, bell-like sound Is heard 
through the stethoscope applied in the 
vicinity. 
bell-telegraph (bel'tel"e-graf), n. 
1. A telegraphic apparatus in which two dif- 
ferently toned bells take the place of a vibrat- 
ing needle in giving the signals. 2. An an- 
nunciator; a fire- or burglar-alarm. 
bell-tower (bel'ton'cr), n. A tower of any 
kind built to contain one or more bells. See cut 
under campanile. 
The unsurpassed bell- 
tower of the Dnomo, 
known and admired by 
all men as the Campa- 
nile of Giotto, [is] the 
most splendid memorial 
of the arts of Florence. 
C. E. Norton, Church- 
[building in Middle 
[Ages, p. 222. 
bell-trap (bel'trap), 
n. A small stench- 
trap, usually fixed 
over the waste-pipe 
of a sink or other in- 
let to a drain. The 
foul air is prevented 
from rising by an invert- 
ed cup or bell, the lips of 
which dip into a cham- 
ber fllled with watersur- 
rounding the top of the 
bell-turret (bel'- 
tur"et), n. A turret 
containing a bell- 
chamber, and usu- 
ally crowned with 
a spire or other ornamental feature, in medie- 
val architecture the lower part of such turrets is often 
used as a staircase. A bell-turret is distinguished from 
a bell-cote in that the former always appears upon the 
ground-plan of the building to which it belongs. 
Belluae (bel'u-e), n. pi. [NL., fern. pi. of L. 
bellua, prop, belva, a beast, particularly a large 
beast. ] In the Linnean system of classification 
(1766), the fifth of the six orders of the class 
Mammalia, containing hoofed quadrupeds with 
incisors in both jaws, and consisting of the four 
genera Equus, Hippopotamus, Sus, and Jtliiim- 
ceros. It is occasionally used in a modified sense, cor- 
responding to some extent with the Pachydermata of 
Cuvier, for the perissodactyl as distinguished from the 
artiodactyl ungulates, though the Linnean Belluce in- 
cluded representatives of both these suborders of Unnn- 
lata. 
belluine (bel'u-in), a. [< L. belluinus, prop, be- 
lui nits, < bellua, prop, belua, a beast.] If. Beast- 
ly; pertaining to or characteristic of beasts; 
brutal : as, ' animal and belluine life," Dp. At- 
terbttry. 2. In zoiil., of or pertaining to the 
He/Inn'. 
bellum internecinum (bel'um in-ter-ne-si'- 
num). [L.: bellum, war; inlcriiecinuiH, interne- 
cine.] A murderous war; a war of mutual ex- 
termination ; war to the death. 
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bell-wether (bel'weTH'er), . [< MK. />,/- 
ii-i tin / . In Hi in il< r ; < hi III + intht r. } .\ wether 
or sheep which leads the (lock, usually earr\ 
ing a bell on its neck. 
|As| :i Ml iii-l/irr [will] form the ll.ick'-i connect HUI 
li.v tinkling sounds, uheii they -., forth t.. victual : 
Such i-s the MVUV of our jjri-at men oer little. 
n, Don Juan. vii. Iv 
bell-WOrk (bel'werk), ii. lii mini mi. ii system 
of working flat ironstone-beds by QadergrOimd 
excavations in tin- form of a bell around the 
pits or shafts; also used on a grand si-ale in 
working the Milt -mines of Transylvania. 
bellwort (bel'wert), H. 1. A general name I'm- 
plants of the natural order <'n m/niiiii/ii/ >. 2. 
In the United States, a common name for 
cies of the genus Vrulnrin, spring flowers of Un- 
natural order Liliaceie. 
belly (bel'i), .; pi. b<-lli<:i (-r/.). [Early mod. 
Bell-turret. Abbaye-aux-Homn 
Caen, Normandy. 
stomach, womb (in early ME. the body), also 
a bellows (see lu-lloim). < AS. ix-ly. balg, lii<i. 
lii/lg (also hirlii/, lii-liff, bylig, with intrusive /) 
also htr/i/r, bi/lgi; a bag, bell, pouch, purse, hull, 
bellows, a bag of any kind, osp. of skin (= 
OFries. baltja = D. balg, skin, belly, = OHG. 
balg, MHG. bale, G. balg, skin, case, bellows, 
paunch, = Icel. belgr (whence perhaps bo'ggr, a 
bag, baggi, a bag, whence perhaps E. bay'i) = 
Sw. 67</=Dan. ba'lg, skin, case, pod, belly, bel- 
lows, = Goth, balgs, a wine-skin, orig. a bag, 
esp. of skin), < belgan (pret. bealg) (= OIIU. 
lull/mi), swell, swell up, be inflated. Cf. bell* 
and boln. Doublet (orig. pi.) bellon-f, q. v. 
Similar forms are Gael, balg, bolij = Ir. balg, 
bolg, bag, belly. = W. bol, bola, boly, belly, 
appar. an old Celtic word, > LL. bulga, bag: see 
bulge, boui/el, budge?, etc.] 1. That part of the 
human body which extends from the breast to 
the groin, and contains the bowels; the part 
of the trunk between the diaphragm and the 
pelvis, considered as to its front and side walls 
belly-timber 
To belly Out, in wnV,i.;. to m -r, KM- rapidly in dilneli- 
sioliK : >aiil of a Imle. 
belly-ache (b(d'i-ak), , ( . l'ain in the bowels; 
the colic. 
The Ii : /In -ii </,:-. 
i-aiiM-d by an inillnlation of pease porridge. 
r,i",,. a, ni l'l_ \lons. Thomas. 
belly-band(beri-band). >i. 1. A band that goes 
round the belly; specitically, a saddle-girth; 
also, n hand fastened to the shafts of ;i vehicle, 
and passing under the belly of the animal draw- 
ing it. 2. \init., a hand of canvas placed 
across a sail to strengthen it. 
belly-boards (bel'i-berds), . ///. A kind of 
fir and pine boards produced in Switzerland, 
used for the sounding-boards of musical instru- 
ments. 
belly-bound (bel'i -bound), a. Constipated; 
costive. [Vulgar.] 
belly-brace (bel'i-bras), n. A cross-brace be- 
tween t he frames of a locomotive, stayed to the 
boiler. 
belly-button (bel'i-but'n). . The navel. 
[Colloq.] 
belly-cheatt (bel'i-chet), . [< belly + Hun/, 
also spelled chete, a thing: see chc/ttv.] An 
apron or covering for the front of the person. 
limn, mill /'/. [Old slang.] 
belly-cheert (bel'i-cher), n. Good cheer; meat 
and drink; food. Elyot, Diet., 1559. 
Bald-pate friars, whose summnm bonuni Is In belty-rl,,.,. 
Marlotcf. 
Loaves and belly-cheer. Milton, Def. of Ilumb. Kemonst. 
belly-cheert (bel'i-cher), p. . To indulge in 
belly-cheer; feast; revel. 
Let them assemble in consistory, . . . and not ... by 
themselves to belly-cheer ... or to promote designs to 
Milton, Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (Ord MS.). 
r abdomen. 2. The part of any animal 
which corresponds to the human belly ; the ab- 
domen in general. 
Underneath the belly of their steeds. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 3. 
3. The stomach with its adjuncts : as, a hungry 
belly. 
He would fain have filled his belly with the husks. 
Luke xv. Iti. 
4f. The womb. 5. The fleshy part of a muscle, 
as distinguished from its tendinous portion : as, 
the anterior belly of the digastricus muscle. 
6. The hollow or interior of an inclosed place. 
Out of the belly of hell cried I. Jonah ii. 2. 
7. The part of anything which resembles the 
belly in protuberance or cavity, as of a bottle, 
a tool, a sail filled by the wind, a blast-furnace, 
etc. 
If you were to fall from aloft and be caught in the bellt/ 
of a sail, and thus saved from instant death, it would not 
do to look at all disturbed. 
R. II. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 35. 
Neither hollow nor swelling, called a belly, Is made on 
the flat part of the brick. C. T. Davis, Bricks, etc., p. 124. 
8. In technol.. the inner, lower, or front sur- 
face or edge of anything, (a) In engraving, the 
lower edge of a graver. (6) In locks, the lower edge of a 
tumbler against which the bit of the key plays, (c) In 
masonry, the batter of a wall, (of) In saddlery, a piece of 
leather sometimes attached to the cantle or hind pommel 
of a saddle to serve as a point of attachment for valise- 
straps, (e) In ship-carp., the inside or concave side of a 
piece of curved timber, the outside being termed the back. 
(/) In carriage-makuig, the wooden covering of an iron 
axle, (g) In archery, the Interior side of a bow, which is 
concave when the bow is bent. See back of a bow, under 
backt. (h) The widest part of the shaft of a blast-furnace, 
(t) The middle or bulging part of a cask. Also called the 
bulge. (_/) The unburnt side of a slab of cork (It) A swell 
on the under side of an iron bearer or girder. (I) The 
upper plate of that part of a musical instrument, as a 
violin, which is designed to increase its resonance; the 
sounding-board of a piano. In instruments of the violin 
class the bridge rests upon the bellv. (ml In minimi a 
mass of ore swelling out and occu 
Riotous banqueting and belly-cheering. 
I'dall, Prol. to Ephesians. 
belly-churlt (bel'i-cherl), . A rustic glutton. 
Drayton. 
belly-doublett (bel'i-dub'let), n. A doublet 
made very long in front, and stuffed or bom- 
basted so as to project somewhat, as in the 
representation of Punch in English puppet- 
shows. This fashion prevailed about 1585 and 
after. See doublet. 
Your arms crossed on your thin belly-doublet. 
Shak., L. L. L., iii. 1. 
belly-fretting (bel'i -fret* ing), . I. The 
chafing of a horse's belly with a fore-girth. 2. 
A violent pain in a horse's belly, caused by 
worms. 
bellyful (bel'i-ful), n. As much as fills the belly 
(stomach) or satisfies the appetite; hence, a 
great abundance ; more than enough. 
Every jack-slave has his belly-full of fighting, and I must 
go up and down like a cock that no body can match. 
Shak., Cymbeline, ii. 1. 
belly-god (bel'i-god), n. One who makes a god 
of his belly, that is, whose great business or 
pleasure is to gratify his appetite ; a glutton ; 
an epicure: as, " Apicius, a famous belly-god," 
Hakewill, Apology, p. 378. 
belly-guy (bel'i-gi), . Naut., a tackle or guy, 
attached half-way up a sheer-leg or spar need- 
a support in the middle. See belly-stay. 
y-piece (bel'i-pes), n. If. The flesh cover- 
ing the belly; hence, an apron. 2. The piece 
forming the belly of a violin, etc. 
belly-pinched (bel'i-pincht), a. Pinched with 
hunger; starved: as, "the belly-pinched volt," 
Shak., Lear, iii. 1. 
belly-pipe (bel'i-pip), n. A flaring nozle for a 
blast-pipe in a blast-furnace. 
belly-rail (bel'i-ral), . 1. In a pianoforte, a 
ing. [< belly, .] I. trans. To fill ;' swell out. 
Your breath of full consent bellied his sails. 
Shak., T. and C., 1L 2. 
Nor were they [the Pilgrim fathers] so wanting to them- 
selves in faith as to burn their ship, but could see the fair 
west wind belly the homeward sail, and then turn unre- 
pining to grapple with the terrible Unknown. 
Lowell, Introd. to Biglow Papers, 1st ser. 
II. inlrtnw. To swell and become protuber- 
ant, like the belly ; bulge out. 
The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. 
Dryden, Iliad, i. 864. 
il forming a portion of the main 
of the framing. 2. In railway engin., a 
rail with a fin or web descending between the 
flanges which rest on the ties. 
belly-roll (bel'i-rol), . A roller of greater 
diameter in the middle than at the ends, used 
for rolling land between ridges or in hollows, 
belly-slave (bel'i-slav), . A person who is a 
slave to his appetite. 
Beastly belly-slaves, which, . . . not once, but continu- 
ally, day and night, give themselves wholly to bibbing 
and banqueting. Homily against Gluttony. 
belly-stay (bel'i-sta), . Naut., a tackle ap- 
plied from above half-mast down when the 
mast requires support, as the belly-guy is ap- 
plied from below. See belly-guy. 
belly-timber (bel'i-tim'ber), n. Food; that 
which supports the belly. [Formerly in serious 
use, but now only humorous.] 
