bellying
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bellying
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, belly + -ing.
verb
- present participle and gerund of belly
adjective
- Bulging or billowing. Did it change into the cry of the wind, plaintive at first, angrily shrill as it freshened, rising to a tearing whistle, sinking to a musical trickle of air from the leech of the bellying sail?
noun bellyings
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A bulging, swelling or billowing shape; the act or state of bulging, swelling or billowing.
1693, Simon de la Loubère, A New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam, translated by A.P., London: Tho. Horne, Part II, Chapter II. Of the Houses of the Siamese, and of their Architecture in Publick Buildings, page 32,
But the Principal Ornament of the Pagodes, is to be accompanied, as general
Similar: bulge, convexity, gibbosity, protrusion, protuberance
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