Definition of "great-bellied" [great•-bel•lied]

• Having a great belly; bigbellied; pregnant; teeming. (adjective)

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• "Fernelius, and be addicted to like humours: [1340] if a great-bellied woman see a hare, her child will often have a harelip, as we call it."
• "[6552] But when he was four hundred miles from Rome he so roared that all the great-bellied women in Rome made abortions, the city walls fell down, and when he came a hundred miles nearer, and roared the second time, their teeth fell out of their heads, the emperor himself fell down dead, and so the lion went back."
• "[Greek omitted] or dries the seed, and is very hurtful to great-bellied women."