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{ } a. [ L. bellicus. See Bellicose. ] Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial. [ Obs. ] “Bellic Cæsar.” Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bellicosus, fr. bellicus of war, fr. bellum war. See Duel. ] Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arnold was, in fact, in a bellicose vein. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a bellicose manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bellicose. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The quality of being belligerent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the act or state of being engaged in war or a warlike conflict; warfare.
Syn. -- hostilities. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. an aggressively hostile or warlike attitude or nature; a readiness to fight or offend, with little or no provocation. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ L. bellum war + gerens, -entis, waging, p. pr. of gerere to wage: cf. F. belligérant. See Bellicose, Jest. ] 1. Waging war; carrying on war. “Belligerent powers.” E. Everett. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a belligerent manner; hostilely. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Bell to bellow. ] A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bellipotens; bellum war + potens powerful, p. pr. of posse to be able. ] Mighty in war; armipotent. [ R. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon; advanced in pregnancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a ruptured belly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Alexander Campbell, of Virginia. ] (Eccl.) A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Carrying on war in conjunction with another power. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A nation or state that carries on war in connection with another. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. Corbel work or the construction of corbels; a series of corbels or piece of continuous corbeled masonry, sometimes of decorative purpose, as in the stalactite ornament of the Moslems. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + embellish: cf. F. désembellir. ] To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Embellished p. pr. & vb. n. Embellishing. ] [ OE. embelisen, embelisshen, F. embellir; pref. em- (L. in) + bel, beau, beautiful. See Beauty. ] To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.

Syn. -- To adorn; beautify; deck; bedeck; decorate; garnish; enrich; ornament; illustrate. See Adorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who embellishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. embellissement. ] 1. The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments. [ 1913 Webster ]

The graces and embellishments of the exterior man. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. needing nourishment; hungry; as, empty-bellied children. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. flabellum a fan + -form: cf. F. flabeliforme. ] Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. flabellum a fan + E. nerve. ] (Bot.) Having many nerves diverging radiately from the base; -- said of a leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. Ghibellino; of German origin. ] (It. Hist.) One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bog-bellied. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a great belly; bigbellied; pregnant; teeming. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. imbellis; pref. im- = in- not + bellum war; cf. bellicus warlike. ] Not warlike or martial. [ Obs. ] R. Junius. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of an isabel or isabella color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Franz von Kobell, of Munich. ] (Min.) A blackish gray mineral, a sulphide of antimony, bismuth, and lead. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not directly at war; as, nonbelligerent nations. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A country which is not involved in a war. [ PJC ]

v. t. To embellish excessively; to render too ornate or complicated. [ PJC ]

adj. marked by elaborate rhetoric and many figures of speech.
Syn. -- empurpled, flowery, ornate, purple. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having a protuberant belly, like the bottom of a pot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. rébellion, L. rebellio. See Rebel, v. i. Among the Romans rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war. It was a renewed war. ] 1. The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by force; revolt; insurrection. [ 1913 Webster ]

No sooner is the standard of rebellion displayed than men of desperate principles resort to it. Ames. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

Commission of rebellion (Eng. Law), a process of contempt issued on the nonappearance of a defendant, -- now abolished. Wharton. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Insurrection; sedition; revolt; mutiny; resistance; contumacy. See Insurrection. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force. “Thy rebellious crew.” “Proud rebellious arms.” Milton. -- Re*bel"lious*ly, adv. -- Re*bel"lious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. rubellus reddish, dim. of ruber red. ] (Min.) A variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers, operations, or offices of the one God the Father. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl.) The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a prominent, overhanging belly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. tabellio, fr. tabella a tablet, a writing, document, dim. of tabula a board: cf. F. tabellion. See Table. ] A secretary or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in France during the old monarchy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a large, protuberant belly, or one shaped like a tun; pot-bellied. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, certain umbelliferous plants; as, umbellic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

Umbellic acid. (Chem.) (a) Anisic acid. [ Obs. ] (b) A yellow powder obtained from umbelliferone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. See Umbelliferous. ] (Bot.) A plant producing an umbel or umbels. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A tasteless white crystalline substance, C9H6O3, found in the bark of a certain plant (Daphne Mezereum), and also obtained by the distillation of certain gums from the Umbelliferae, as galbanum, asafetida, etc. It is analogous to coumarin. Called also hydroxy-coumarin. Its strong fluorescence under ultraviolet light makes it useful in analytical biochemistry, as, for example, to detect phosphatase activity by hydrolysis of umbelliferyl phosphate. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]