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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Belly-cheer

Bēl'ly-cheer, n.

noun

n. [Perhaps from Fr. belle chére.] Good cheer. [Obs.] “Belly-cheer and banquets.” Roclands. “Loaves and belly-cheer.” Milton.

Bĕl'ly-cheer, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To revel; to feast. [Obs.] A pack of clergymen [assembled] by themselves to belly-cheer in their presumptuous Sion. Milton.