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Definition of Great bellied
1. Adjective. Having a prominent belly.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Bellied
Literary usage of Great bellied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1883)
"Great- bellied women, when they long, yield us prodigious examples iu this kind,
as moles, warts, scars, harelips, monsters, especially caused in their ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy,: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes by Robert Burton (1804)
"Great-bellied women, when they long, yield us prodigious examples in this ...
gives a special caution to great-bellied women, c that they do not admit suck ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1821)
"Great-bellied women, when they long, yield us prodigious ... gives a special
caution to great- bellied women, c that they do not admit such absurd conceits ..."
4. Medical thoughts of Shakespeare, by B.R. Field by William Shakespeare (1885)
"King Lear, Act I., Sc. I. Great-bellied women, That had not half a week to go,
like rams In the old time of war, would shake the press And make 'em reel ..."
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