3. (Naut.) A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail.
Bellybound
(Bel"ly*bound`) a. Costive; constipated.
Bellycheat
(Bel"ly*cheat`) n. An apron or covering for the front of the person. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
Bellycheer
(Bel"ly*cheer`) n. [Perh. from F. belle chère.] Good cheer; viands. [Obs.] "Bellycheer and
banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.
Bellycheer
(Bel"ly*cheer`), v. i. To revel; to feast. [Obs.]
A pack of clergymen [assembled] by themselves to bellycheer in their presumptuous Sion.
Milton.
Bellyful
(Bel"ly*ful) n. 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-god
(Bel"ly-god`) n. One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.
Belly-pinched
(Bel"ly-pinched`) a. Pinched with hunger; starved. "The belly-pinched wolf." Shak.
Belock
(Be*lock") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belocked ] [Pref. be- + lock: cf. AS. belcan.] To lock, or fasten
as with a lock. [Obs.] Shak.
Belomancy
(Bel"o*man`cy) n. [Gr. ; arrow + a diviner: cf. F. bélomancie.] 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. Encyc. Brit.
Belong
(Be*long") v. i. [imp. & p. p. Belonged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Belonging.] [OE. belongen (akin
to D. belangen to concern, G. belangen to attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See
Long, v. i.] [Usually construed with to.]
1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.
2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service.
A desert place belonging to . . . Bethsaids.
Luke ix. 10.
The mighty men which belonged to David.
1 Kings i. 8.
3. To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to. "Do not interpretations belong
to God ?" Gen. xl. 8.
4. To be suitable for; to be due to.
Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.
Heb. v. 14.
No blame belongs to thee.
Shak.
5. To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether
by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town.
Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong.
Blackstone.
