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bellies out

bellies out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of belly out.

Meaning of belly out

Verb

belly out (third-person singular simple present bellies out, present participle bellying out, simple past and past participle bellied out)

  1. (intransitive) To bulge or billow outward.
    • […] the Shape of the Hive is recommended to be like an Egg, with one End cut off, as People order it when they are about to eat it, it may consist of twelve Straw-Wreaths or Rowls, according to the Bigness of it; the three first Rowls of one Magnitude, and about a Foot or somewhat more in Diameter...1733, The Dublin Society, chapter 2, in Instructions for Managing Bees, page 12
  2. (transitive) To cause to bulge or billow outward.
    • The scene is changed and Fortune’s gale
      Shall belly out each prosperous sail.1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Happiness” (written in 1791), lines 30-31

Questions about bellies out

What is bellies out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bellies out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of belly out.

Words near bellies out in the dictionary

  1. bellied out
  2. bellied up
  3. bellied up to the bar
  4. bellies
  5. bellies of the beasts
  6. bellies out
  7. bellies up
  8. bellies up to the bar
  9. belliesful
  10. belliferous
  11. belligerati

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