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Meaning of BELLYCHEER

 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Bel"ly*cheer`\, n. [Perh. from F. belle ch[`e]re.]
    Good cheer; viands. [Obs.] ``Bellycheer and banquets.''
    --Rowlands. ``Loaves and bellycheer.'' --Milton.
    
    
  2. \Bel"ly*cheer`\, v. i.
    To revel; to feast. [Obs.]
    
          A pack of clergymen [assembled] by themselves to
          bellycheer in their presumptuous Sion.   --Milton.
    
    
 

 

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