What is "bellied"

Usage examples of "bellied".

He saw a woman in her mid thirties, plump, amply breasted, bellied and thighed, well tufted in pubes and armpits, plain of face save for sparkling brown eyes, dark hair curling down behind her shoulders.

He was an experienced jumper, remaining upright and rocksteady as the canopy bellied down behind him and collapsed in the long grass.

Clouds scudding fast beyond the crowded steeples outpaced the fast river traffic, the eelboats and wherries and other light craft bobbing with bellied sails and the towering merchantmen.

But he bellied close to the stringpiece and stared out into the river.

Far above him a young girl with a white collar was leaning under a blue sunblind which suddenly bellied like a sail.

It moved at an ambling walk, and the only man erect in his saddle was the pennon bearer, and he was kept alert only by the occasional gust of wind from off the distant mountains that unexpectedly bellied out the heavy, silken banner and made fair to tear the ashwood shaft from his grasp.

The sailors poled the vessel out past the clusters of docked galleys, and then the sail was unfurled on its dozen brailing lines, and bellied in the cold morning wind.

So Spallanzani took some large glass flasks, round bellied with tapering necks.

Bili halted his command and, along with Had and Taros, who would captain the right and left wings, bellied into the thicket which concealed Whitetip and the other cat.

Just below the crest of the hill, Bili halted his command and, along with Hari and Taros, who would captain the right and left wings, bellied into the thicket which concealed Whitetip and the other cat.

I told her how the bellied beer-god, using his Dionysian alias, had come bingeing from Naxos into Argos with his new wife Ariadne -- "He told me about her, last time I saw him," Calyxa confessed.

Little Dutch had bellied up in a nice thick place, using his radio only on alternate hours, waiting for Snake to come and fetch him while he nursed a broken leg in silent agony, and listened to the same triple-A batteries that had splashed his A-6 hammer the sky at other men trying to take out the same bridge that his own bombs had missed.

Shea saw them ride in and reported to me at once and I went down to the saloon where they had bellied up to the bar.

Thick dust bellied up in a cloud, through which a single sun-ray that entered the cobwebbed pane shot a radiant arrow.

As incongruous as a harlot in a temple or a cowled priest bellied up to a raucous bar.