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bel⋅lows

  [bel-ohz, -uhz]
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–noun (used with a singular or plural verb)
1. a device for producing a strong current of air, consisting of a chamber that can be expanded to draw in air through a valve and contracted to expel it through a tube.
2. anything resembling or suggesting bellows in form, as the collapsible part of a camera or enlarger.
3. the lungs.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME bel(o)wes (pl.), OE belg, short for blǣst belg, pl. belgas blast-bag; c. D blaasbalg, G Blasebalg, ON belgr. See belly

Related forms:
bel⋅lows⋅like, adjective
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Bel⋅lows

  [bel-ohz]
–noun
George Wesley, 1882–1925, U.S. painter and lithographer.

bel⋅low

  [bel-oh]
–verb (used without object)
1. to emit a hollow, loud, animal cry, as a bull or cow.
2. to roar; bawl: bellowing with rage.
–verb (used with object)
3. to utter in a loud deep voice: He bellowed his command across the room.
–noun
4. an act or sound of bellowing.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME belwen, akin to OE bylgan to roar (cf. for the vowel OHG bullôn); extended form akin to bell 2

Related forms:
bel⋅low⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
2. See cry.
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bel·low   (běl'ō)   
v.   bel·lowed, bel·low·ing, bel·lows

v.   intr.
  1. To make the deep roaring sound characteristic of a bull.
  2. To shout in a deep voice.
v.   tr.
To utter in a loud, powerful voice. See Synonyms at shout.
n.  
  1. The roar of a large animal, such as a bull.
  2. A very loud utterance or other sound.

[Middle English belwen, perhaps from Old English belgan, to be enraged, and bylgan, to bellow.]
bel'low·er n.
bel·lows   (běl'ōz, -əz)   
pl.n.   (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
    1. An apparatus for producing a strong current of air, as for sounding a pipe organ or increasing the draft to a fire, consisting of a flexible, valved air chamber that is contracted and expanded by pumping to force the air through a nozzle.
    2. Something, such as the pleated windbag of an accordion, that resembles this apparatus.
  2. The lungs.

[Middle English belowes, from Old English belgas, pl. of belg; see bhelgh- in Indo-European roots.]
Bel·lows   (běl'ōz)   
American artist noted for his energetic paintings of sporting scenes, such as Stag at Sharkey's (1907).
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Bellows

Bel"lows\, n. sing. & pl. [OE. bely, below, belly, bellows, AS. b[ae]lg, b[ae]lig, bag, bellows, belly. Bellows is prop. a pl. and the orig. sense is bag. See Belly.] An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind.

Bellows camera, in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows.

Hydrostatic bellows. See Hydrostatic.

A pair of bellows, the ordinary household instrument for blowing fires, consisting of two nearly heart-shaped boards with handles, connected by leather, and having a valve and tube.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : Bellows
Spanish: fuelle,
German: das Gebläse,
Japanese: ふいご
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bellows 
c.1200, belwes pl. of belu, belw, northern form of beli, from late O.E. belg, reduced from blæstbælg, lit. "blowing bag" (see belly). Used exclusively in plural since 15c.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: bel·lows
Pronunciation: 'bel-(")Oz, -&z
Function: noun plural but singular or plural in construction
: LUNGS
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Bellows

occurs only in Jer. 6:29, in relation to the casting of metal. Probably they consisted of leather bags similar to those common in Egypt.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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