A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.
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Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres.
A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple.
A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid.
Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial.
Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.
In a bellicose manner.
Bellicose.
Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.
The quality of being belligerent.
A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.
In a belligerent manner; hostilely.
A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time.
Mighty in war; armipotent.
A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours.
Lead colic.
The goddess of war.
A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar.
One who, or that which, bellows.
An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind.
Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal.
A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.
A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.
To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge.
The depression in the middle of the abdomen in humans left as a residue of the umbilical cord; the umbilicus; the navel{1}.
a vigorous, loud laugh, expressing a strong amusement.
to approach (a counter) and stand in front of it; -- used mostly in the phrase belly up to the bar (i.e. to a counter in a saloon).
One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.
to land on the underside without the landing gear; -- of airplanes.
to laugh a deep, hearty laugh.
Pinched with hunger; starved.
defunct; bankrupt; -- used mostly of commercial organizations; often used in the phrase go belly-up, i. e. to go bankrupt.
to complain, especially in a whining or grumbling manner; to gripe.
a person who complains habitually, usually about everyday minor problems.
A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth.
Costive; constipated.
An apron or covering for the front of the person.
To revel; to feast.
As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough.
The capital city of Belize. Population (2000) = 5,845.
To lock, or fasten as with a lock.
A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future.
To be deserved by.
That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects.
Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.
Of or pertaining to Beloochistan, or to its inhabitants. A native or an inhabitant of Beloochistan.
To act the lord over.
To love.
One greatly loved.
In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath.
To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to.
A grandfather, or ancestor.
A lewd man; also, a bully.
To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.
Encircled by, or secured with, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted earl.
See Beltane.
The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.
lacking a belt.
A cetacean allied to the dolphins.
To bespatter, as with mud.
A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.
A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Brazil.
To make mad.
To mangle; to tear asunder.
To mask; to conceal.
To master thoroughly.
To maul or beat severely; to bruise.
To bewilder.
To make mean; to lower.
To meet.
To mete.
To mingle; to mix.
To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.
To envelop in mist.
To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.
One who bemoans.
To mock; to ridicule.
To soil or encumber with mire and dirt.
The sign /; the same as B flat.
To make monstrous or like a monster.
To mourn over.
To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.
To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up.
To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor.
An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be.
A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).
To promise; to name.
To sit on a seat of justice.
One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.
A band.
Capable of being bent.
to reproduce by the Benday method.
One who, or that which, bends.
The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.
A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.
Diagonally.
Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.
A prayer; boon.
See Neaped.
In a lower place; underneath.
An exclamation corresponding to Bless you !.
A married man, or a man newly married.
Having mild and salubrious qualities.
One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846.
The act of blessing.
A book of benedictions.
A collected series of benedictions.
Tending to bless.
Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer.
The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version.
Blessed.
The act of conferring a benefit.
One who confers a benefit or benefits.
A woman who confers a benefit.
Favorable; beneficent.
To endow with a benefice.
Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.
Having no benefice.
The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.
Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.
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