BEL, 
BEL'LY,/ t balg, Dutch, -bol, kola, W#.] That part 
of the human body which reaches from the bread to the 
thighs, containing the bowels.— In - beads, it is u fed, in 
general, for that part of the body next the ground.—And 
the Lord laid unto the ferpent, Upon thy belly (Italt thou 
go, and dull (halt thou eat, all the days of thy life. G*ic- 
fts.— The womb : in this 1’enfe, it is commonly tiled ludi- 
croufly or familiarly .—-The fecret is grown too big for the 
pretence, like Mrs. Primly’s big belly. Congreve. —“That 
part of man which requires food, in oppofition to the back, 
or that which demands clothes.—Whole god is their belly. 
Phil. —'I’he part of any thing that fwells out into a larger 
capacity.—Fortune fometimes turneth the handle of the 
bottle, which is eafy to be taken hold of; and after the 
belly, which is hard to gralp. Bacon. — Any place in which 
fomething is inclofed.—Out of the belly of hell cried I, 
and thou bearded my voice. Jonah. 
i! The Belly has no ears.” [From Venter non b.abet au- 
res, Lat. The French fay: Ventre a fame n'a point d’orcil/esf 
This proverb intimates, that there is no arguing the mat¬ 
ter with hunger, the mother of impatience and anger: it 
is a prudent caution not to contend with hungry perfons, 
or contradidt their quarrelfome tempers, by ill-timed apo¬ 
logies or perfualions to patience : it is a lefture of civility 
and difcretion, not to didurb a gentleman at his repalL 
There is one reafon, why the belly Iho'uld have no ears, 
fince neither words, nor even knific, will fatisfy it. The 
Germans fay : Guts worte machen einen nicht Jatt. 
To Belly, v. n. To fwell into a larger capacity; to 
hang out ; to bulge out : 
The pow’r appeas’d, with winds fuffic’d the fail, 
■The bellying canvas If rutted with the gale. Dry den, 
BE L'LY-ACH E,/i [from belly and ache.'] Thecholic; 
or pain in the bowels. 
BEL'LY-BOUND, ad]. [from belly and bound. ] Difeaf- 
ed. fo as to be coltive, and fhrunk in the belly. 
BEL'LY-FRETTING, [ [from belly and/rct.] In 
farriery, the chafing of a horfe’s belly with the fore-girt. 
A great pain in a horfe’s belly, caufed by worms. 
BEL'LYFUL,/. [front belly and full.'] As much food 
as fills the belly, or latisfies the appetite. It is often ufed 
iudicroully for more than enough ; thus, king James told 
his Ion that he would have his bellyful of parliamentary im¬ 
peachments. 
BEL'LYGQD,yi [from belly and god. ] A glutton; one 
makes a god of his belly.—What infinite wade they made 
this way, the only llory of Apicius, a famous bellygod, may 
fuffice to (hew. Hakcwill. 
BEL'LY-PINCHED, adj. [from belly and pinched .] 
Starved. 
This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, 
The lion and the belly-pinched wolf 
Keep their fur dry, unbonnetted he runs. Shakefpeare. 
BEL'LYRQLL, f. [from belly and roll .] A roller, fo 
called, as it feems, from entering into the hollows.—They 
have two fmall harrows that they clap on each fide of the 
ridge, and fo they harrow right up and down, and roll it 
with a LellyroU, that goes between the ridges when they 
have fown it. Mortimer. 
BEL'LY-TIMBER,yi [from belly and timber. Food; 
materials to fupport the belly : 
The (Length of every other member 
Is founded on your bel'y-timber. Prior. 
BEL'LY-WORM,y] [from belly and worm. 3 A worm 
that breeds in the belly. 
BEL'MAN,y. [from bell and man.~\ He whofe bufinefs 
it is to proclaim any thing in towns, and to gain attention 
by ringing his bell. 
BEL'META-L, f. The metal of which bells are made. 
The balls of the coinpolition of belmetal is copper, which 
is alloyed chiefly with tin. Silver is faid to be fometimes 
added. A fmall proportion of tin, added to copper, de¬ 
prives it of its malleability, fo far as to render it quite brit- 
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tie; and the fpecinc gravity of the compound is always 
greater than would be deduced by computation from the 
quantities and fpecific gravities of its component parts. In 
certain proportions, it even exceeds that of the heavier 
metals. The colour of belmetal is much whiter than might 
be expedted from the proportion of tin which enters into 
its coinpolition; and, when this laft metal conftitutes one- 
third of the mafs, the compound is fo perfectly white, as 
to reflect the images of all coloured bodies without alte¬ 
ration, when duly poliflied. See Speculum. 
BEL'MGNT, a town of France, in the department of 
the Rhone and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftriCt of Roanne : fourteen miles north-call of Roanne. 
Belmont, a town of France, in the department of the 
Aveiron, and chief place of a canton, in the dift.ridt of S r - 
Afrique, containing about 3000 inhabitants : nine leagues 
eall of Alby, and three and a half foutli-fouth-we.ft of St, 
Afrique. 
BELMON'TE, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Calabria Citra : eleven miles wed- 
fouth-weft of Cofenzq. 
To BELOCK', v. a. [from be and lock . ] To fallen as 
with a lock : 
This is the hand, which with a vow’d contraft 
Was fall bclock'd in thine. Shakefpeare. 
BE'LOMANCY, f. an arrow, and (xaiLta, di- 
nation.] Divination, by arrows, practifed in the eall, but 
chiefly among the Arabians. It was performed in different 
ways. One was to mark a parcel of arrows, and put ele¬ 
ven or more of them into a bag : thefe were afterwards 
drawn out ; and according as they were marked or not, 
they judged of future events. Another way was to have 
three arrows, upon one of which was wrote, “ God or¬ 
ders it me;” upon another, “ God forbids it me;” and 
upon the third nothing. Thefe were put into a quiver, 
out of which they drew one of the three at random ; if it 
happened to be that with the firll infcription, the tiling 
they confulted about was to be done : if it chanced to be 
that with the fecond infcription, it was let alone ; but if it 
proved that without infcription, they drew over again. Be- 
lomancy is an ancient praflice, and probably that which 
Ezekiel mentions, chap. xxi. 21. At lead St. Jerome 
underftands it fo, and obferves that the pratlice was fre¬ 
quent among the Allyrians and Babylonians. Something 
like it is alfo mentioned in Hofea, chap. iv. only that (laves 
are there mentioned inftead of arrows, which is rather 
rhabdomancy than belomancy. Grotius, as well as Je¬ 
rome, confounds the two together, and (hews that it pre¬ 
vailed much among the Magi, Chaldeans, and Scythians; 
whence it paffed to the Sclavonians, and thence to the Ger¬ 
mans, whom Tacitus obferves to make file of it. 
BE'LON (Peter), of Mans, in France, flourifhed about 
the middle of the 16th century. He publilhed feveral 
books in Latin. He wrote in French, of birds, beads, 
fiHies, ferpents, and the negleHed culture of plants; and 
a book of Travels, or obfervations of many Angularities 
and memorable things found in Greece, Alia, Judaea, 
Egypt, Arabia, and other foreign countries. He was mur¬ 
dered near Paris in 1564. 
BE'LONE, f. in ichthyology. See Esox. 
To BELONG', v. n. [ belangen, Dutch.] To be the pro¬ 
perty of.—To light on a part of a field belonging to Boaz. 
Ruth. —To be the province or bufinefs of.—To Jove the 
care of heav’n and earth belongs. Dryden. —To adhere; or 
be appendant to.—He went into a defert belonging to Beth- 
laida. Luke. —To have relation to.—To whom belongejt 
thou ; whence art thou ? 1 Samuel. —To be the quality or 
attributes of.—-The faculties belonging to the Cupreine fpi- 
rit, are unlimited and boundlefs, fitted and deligned for 
infinite objefts. Cheyne _To be referred to ; to relate to. 
—He careth for things that belong to the Lord. 1 Corinth. 
BELO'VED, participle’, [ from belove, derived of love. It 
is obfervable, that though the participle be of very fre-» 
quent ufe, the verb is feldom or never admitted; as we (ay, 
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