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▪ I. belch, v.|bɛltʃ, bɛlʃ|
Forms: 5–6 belke, 5–7 belche, 6 balche, bealche, 6–8 belk, 7 bealke, 9 dial. belk, 6– belch.
[OE. bealcian, bælcian: cf. Du. balken to bray, shout. See belk.]
1. intr. To void wind noisily from the stomach through the mouth, to eructate. (Now vulgar.)
a1000Be Manna Mode (Gr.) 28 Breodað he and bælceð. c1460Towneley Myst. 314 To belke thai begyn and spew that is irke. 1483Cath. Angl. 27 Belche [v.r. Belke or Bolke], ructare. 1530Palsgr. 447/2 Harke howe the churle belcheth. 1574Hellowes Gueuara's Ep. (1577) 185 The olde..glutton..shall belk much and sleepe little. 1623Cockeram, Parbreake, to bealke. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Belch, If an Asthmatical Person comes to belch, it is a good Sign. 1860J. Wolff Trav. & Adv. I. xi. 341 They sit..and belch, because, they say, that they are filled with the mystical wine of truth. 1864Atkinson Whitby Gloss., Belk, to belch.
2. trans. To ejaculate, to give vent to; to vent with vehemence or violence (words, feelings). In early use, translating L. ēructāre, and having no offensive meaning; but in later use confined, by association with other senses, to the utterance of things foul or offensive, or to furious vociferation compared to the action of a volcano or cannon.
a1000Ags. Ps. (Spelm.) xix. 2 Dæᵹ ðam dæᵹe bealceþ word. c1500Wyclif Ps. xlv. 2 (MS. X.) Myn herte hath teld ethir belkid [1382 bowide] out a good word. 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 637 As the rich glutton..belked out these glorious words. 1583Stanyhurst Aeneis ii. (Arb.) 67, I belcht owt blasphemye bawling. 1594Carew Tasso (1881) 73 His fell griefe, as some begoared Bull, Roaring and sighing out he belkes at full. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 16 (1619) 323 And openly belch out blasphemies against God. 1692Washington tr. Milton's Def. Pop. Wks. 1738 I. 509 Belching out the same slanders. 1791Wolcott (P. Pindar) Magpie & Rob. Wks. 1812 II. 473 Belching wisdom in one's face. 1856E. Capern Poems (ed. 2) 176 The war-fiend shrieks and belches out his fury.
3. trans. To emit (wind, fumes, etc.) by belching. Also fig.
1561Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 195 What spirit do they belche out? 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glasse 37 He breathing belketh out such sulphure aires. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iii. v. 137 The bitterness of it I now belch from my heart. 1634A. Warwick Spare Min. (1637) 113 What more..noisome smells can a new opened sepulcher belch out? 1641Milton Ch. Discip. i. Wks. (1851) 12 Belching the soure crudities of yesterdayes Poperie. 1648G. Daniel Eclog. iii. 207 Noe morning penitence Belches the folly of my last offence.
4. trans. To vomit.
†a. lit. Obs.
1558Phaër æneid. iii. (R.) Belching raw gobbets from his maw. 1587Turberv. Trag. T. (1837) 256 The venomd worme Had bealchd his poyson out. 1718Pope Iliad xvi. 200 Their black jaws belch the gore. 1783Blair Rhet. (1812) I. iv. 83 Belching up its bowels with a groan.
b. fig.
1610Shakes. Temp. iii. iii. 56 Destiny..the neuer surfeited Sea, Hath caus'd to belch vp you! 1648Hunting of Fox 36 Deadly Poyson, belch'd up by a Consistorian Schismatick.
5. trans. To eject, throw out.
†a. gen. Obs.
1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. xvi. 40 Which vessel some will have to belch out acid blood.
b. esp. Said of the eruptive emission of fire and smoke by volcanoes; hence of cannons, etc.
1580H. Gifford Gilloflowers (1875) 125 Aetna hill doth belke forth flakes of fire. 1667Milton P.L. i. 671 A Hill..whose griesly top Belch'd fire and rowling smoak. a1733North Lives (1826) II. 339 Strombolo..belched out fire and smoke in a most terrible sort. 1865Parkman Huguenots iii. (1875) 34 Rebel batteries belched their vain thunder. 1874Holland Mistr. Manse xv. 200 The cloud of menace belched its brand.
c. absol.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. i. vii. vii. 208 Rusty firelocks belch after him.
†6. intr. To rise in eructation; to heave like a confined fluid or gas seeking to escape. Obs.
1576Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 420 Envious rancour so boiled in the brest, that it not onely belched, but also brake foorth immediately.
†7. intr. To gush out; to flow in gulps. Obs.
1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 218 Their plenteous wine presses, and their full sellers, belking from this vnto that. 1587Fleming Cont. Holinshed. III. 1351/1 The blood still belched out into the basen.
▪ II. belch, n.|bɛltʃ, bɛlʃ|
[f. prec. vb.]
1. An eructation.
1570Levins Manip. 58 A Belche, ructus. 1574Hellowes Gueuara's Ep. (1577) 132 The sight thereof moueth belkes, and makes the stomach wamble. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Vne route, a belch. 1763Churchill P. Professor, Salute the royal babe in Welsh, And send forth gutturals like a belch.
2. fig. Said of the sea, hell, a volcano, cannon.
1513Douglas æneis vii. vi. 110 Pluto eik..Reputtis that bismyng belch haitfull to se. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. iv. xxii, O belch of hell! O horrid blasphemy! 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. ii. vi. vii. 118 And at every new belch, the women..shout.
b. A slang name for poor beer: see quot. 1796.
1706E. Ward Hud. Rediv. I. vii. 18 A little House, Where Porters do their Belch carouse. 1712Henley Spect. No. 396 ⁋2 Owing to the use of brown juggs, muddy belch, etc. 1796Grose Class. Dict., Belch, all sorts of beer: that liquor being apt to cause eructation. 1858A. Mayhew Paved w. Gold iii. iii. 265 Whilst my mates are drinking the ‘belch.’ |