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bellying🔊

Bulging or billowing.

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Did it change into the cry of the wind, plaintive at first, angrily shrill as it freshened, rising to a tearing whistle, sinking to a musical trickle of air from the leech of the bellying sail?
And the light mounts over the faces of all the tall blind houses, slides through a chink and paints the lustrous bellying crimson curtains […]
As he swept out of the room with a bellying sweep of his gown and a toss of his silver hair, his old heart was beating madly.

A bulging, swelling or billowing shape; the act or state of bulging, swelling or billowing.

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One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellyings of that blackness advancing headlong, towering heavenward, turning the twilight to a palpable darkness […]
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