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Bellying   Listen
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Belly  v. t.  (past & past part. bellied; pres. part. bellying)  To cause to swell out; to fill. (R.) "Your breath of full consent bellied his sails."



Belly  v. i.  To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge. "The bellying canvas strutted with the gale."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bellying" Quotes from Famous Books



... statues crowned; And horizontal dials on the ground, In living box by cunning artists traced; And gallies trim, on no long voyage bound But by their roots there ever anchored fast, All were their bellying sails out-spread to ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers



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