Word Meanings - MIDRIFF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See MILTON (more info) womb; akin to OFries. midref midriff, rif, ref, belly, OHG. href

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• BELLYCHEER
  Good cheer; viands. "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.
• MIDRIFF
  See MILTON (more info) womb; akin to OFries. midref midriff, rif, ref, belly, OHG. href
• BELLYBAND
  A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail. (more info) 1. A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth. 2. A band of flannel or other cloth about the belly.
• BELLYFUL
  As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough. Lloyd. King James told his son that he would have his bellyful of parliamentary impeachments. Johnson.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• BELLY
  The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back. Belly doublet, a doublet of the 16th century, hanging down so as to cover the belly. Shak. -- Belly fretting, the chafing of a horse's belly with a girth. Johnson.
• BELLYCHEAT
  An apron or covering for the front of the person. Beau. & Fl.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• BELLY-PINCHED
  Pinched with hunger; starved. "The belly-pinched wolf." Shak.
• BELLY-GOD
  One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.
• BELLYBOUND
  Costive; constipated.
• BELLYACHE
  Pain in the bowels; colic.
• REDBELLY
  The char.
• POT-BELLY
  A protuberant belly.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• SAWBELLY
  The alewife.
• GOR-BELLY
  A prominent belly; a big-bellied person.
• WHITEBELLY
  The American widgeon, or baldpate. The prairie chicken.
• SPECKLED-BELLY
  The gadwall.
• SWAGBELLY
  Any large tumor developed in the abdomen, and neither fluctuating nor sonorous. Dunglison. (more info) 1. A prominent, overhanging belly. Smollett.