belly

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. See abdomen.
2. n. The underside of the body of certain vertebrates, such as snakes and fish.
3. n. Informal The stomach.
4. n. Informal An appetite for food.
5. n. The womb; the uterus.
6. n. A part that bulges or protrudes: the belly of a sail.
7. n. Anatomy The bulging, central part of a muscle.
8. n. A deep, hollow interior: the belly of a ship.
9. v. To bulge or cause to bulge. See Synonyms at bulge.
10. belly up To approach closely: belly up to the bar.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. That part of the human body which extends from the breast to the groin, and contains the bowels: the part of the trunk between the diaphragm and the pelvis, considered as to its front and side walls and its cavity and contents; the abdomen. See cut under abdomen.
2. n. The part of any animal which corresponds to the human belly; the abdomen in general.
3. n. The stomach with its adjuncts: as, a hungry belly.
4. n. The womb.
5. n. The fleshy part of a muscle, as distinguished from its tendinous portion: as, the anterior belly of the digastricus muscle.
6. n. The hollow or interior of an inclosed place.
7. n. The part of anything which resembles the belly in protuberance or cavity, as of a bottle, a tool, a sail filled by the wind, a blast-furnace, etc.
8. n. In technology, the inner, lower, or front surface or edge of anything. In engraving, the lower edge of a graver.
9. To fill; swell out.
10. To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; bulge out.

Wiktionary

1. n. The abdomen.
2. n. The stomach, especially a fat one.
3. n. The lower fuselage of an airplane.
4. v. To position one's belly.
5. v. To swell and become protuberant; to bulge.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.
2. n. The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly.
3. n. obsolete The womb.
4. n. The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part.
5. n. (Arch.) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
6. v. rare To cause to swell out; to fill.
7. v. To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a part that bulges deeply
2. v. swell out or bulge out
3. n. a protruding abdomen
4. n. the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
5. n. the hollow inside of something
6. n. the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish