Word Meanings - TYMPANITES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.

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• TYMPANY
  A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites. Fuller. 2. Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness. "Thine 's a tympany of sense." Dryden. A plethoric a tautologic tympany of sentence. De Quincey.
• FLATULENT
  1. Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy. 2. Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach. Vegetables abound more with aërial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent.
• DISTENTION
  1. The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs. 2. Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended.
• BELLYCHEER
  Good cheer; viands. "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.
• 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.
• FLATULENTLY
  In a flatulent manner; with flatulence.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.