The half-binding is approximately half the thickness of the belly and is usually made of a contrasting color wood.

:... a monstrosity of a man, a pygmy, fat-headed and like a mole as to the smallness of his eyes ; disgusting with his short, broad, thick, and half hoary beard ; disgraced by a neck an inch long ; very bristly through the length and thickness of his hair ; in color an Ethiopian ; one whom it would not be pleasant to meet in the middle of the night ; with extensive belly, lean of loin, very long of hip considering his short stature, small of shank, proportionate as to his heels and feet ; clad in a garment costly but too old, and foul-smelling and faded through age ; shod with Sicyonian shoes ; bold of tongue, a fox by nature, in perjury, and lying a Ulysses.

In order to correct this problem, saddle makers covered the metal rings in 4-5 ounces of medium thickness belly leather.

Many belly dancers are married, but Serene is one of the few who will admit it.

Marlene ( surname: Adamo ), 25, a Brazilian divorcee who learned the dance from Arabic friends in Paris, now lives on Manhattan's West Side, is about the best belly dancer working the Casbah, loves it so much that she dances on her day off.

In West Africa, for example, where meat is a luxury and babies must be weaned early to make room at the breast for later arrivals, a childhood menace is kwashiorkor, or `` Red Johnny '', a growth-stunting protein deficiency ( signs: reddish hair, bloated belly ) that kills more than half its victims, leaves the rest prey for parasites and lingering tropical disease.

), the warning colouration is on the belly and these animals adopt a defensive pose when attacked, exhibiting their bright colours to the predator.

The male is torpedo-shaped, with gold stripes between the blue stripes ; the female has a larger, whitish belly and silver stripes instead of gold.

The Doctor was loomed in the House of Lungbarrow in the mountains of South Gallifrey, but unique among the house's cousins he has a belly button ( Lungbarrow suggests this is because he is a re-incarnation of The Other, but later BBC books featuring the Eighth Doctor suggest he actually has a Gallifreyan father and human mother as stated in the 1996 telemovie ).

At birth the joey, only long, crawls into the downward-facing pouch on the mother's belly ( which is closed by a drawstring-like muscle that the mother can tighten at will ) and attaches itself to one of the two teats.

The geometry of the lute belly is relatively complex, involving a system of barring in which braces are placed perpendicular to the strings at specific lengths along the overall length of the belly, the ends of which are angled quite precisely to abut the ribs on either side for structural reasons.

He further suggests the inward bend of the soundboard ( the " belly scoop ") is a deliberate adaptation by ancient builders to afford the lutenist's right hand more space between the strings and soundboard.

The lute belly is almost never finished, but in some cases the luthier may size the top with a very thin coat of shellac or glair in order to help keep it clean.

The belly is joined directly to the rib, without a lining glued to the sides, and a cap and counter cap are glued to the inside and outside of the bottom end of the bowl to provide rigidity and increased gluing surface.

After joining the top to the sides, a half-binding is usually installed around the edge of the belly.

The bridge, sometimes made of a fruitwood, is attached to the soundboard typically at 1 / 5 to 1 / 7 the belly length.

::: You can only be really certain of what is already in your belly.

* With the guitar held horizontally, with the belly uppermost and the bass strings toward the player, and using a slide called a " steel " held in the left hand ; this is known as " lap steel guitar ".

In Brazil, folklorists suggest that the word samba is a corruption of the Kikongo word Semba, translated as umbigada in Portuguese, meaning " a blow struck with the belly button ".

It is one of the tallest sighthounds, with a harsh 3-4 inch long coat and mane, somewhat softer beard and moustache, and softer hair on breast and belly.

It is commonly believed that C-holes ( a type and shape of pierced sound port visible on the top face or belly of string instruments ) are a definitive feature of viols, a feature used to distinguish viols from instruments in the violin family, which typically had F-shaped holes.

The use of this warhead type is mainly restricted to lightly armored areas of main battle tanks ( MBT ) such as the top, belly and rear armored areas.

She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.

Like most storks, these fly with the neck outstretched, not retracted like a heron ; in flight, the large heavy bill is kept drooping somewhat below belly height, giving these birds a very unusual appearance to those who see them for the first time ( see here

The teats of the sow can be quite variable in number, from six to 16, and are located on two parallel lines along the belly.

The plumage of the Greylag Goose is greyish-brown, with a darker head and paler belly with variable black spots.

Females are highly variable, and may resemble adult or immature males, have green upperparts, white belly, white-scaled green or blue throat, and white-scaled dark blue crissum, or be intermediate between the aforementioned plumages, though retain the white-scaled dark blue crissum.

Instrumentation consists of variable combinations of accordion, guitar, violin, tanbou dibas, chacha ( either a single metal cylinder as in Martinique, or a spherical calabash without a handle, held in both hands ), malakach ( maracas ), triangle, bwa ( tibwa ) and syak, a bamboo rasp one metre long, grooved on both top and bottom, held with one end on the belly and the other on a door or wall and scraped with both hands.

A predator looking up from below ( such as an orca or a leopard seal ) has difficulty distinguishing between a white penguin belly and the reflective water surface.

Phenol injections can be used, or botulinum toxin injections into the muscle belly, to attempt to dampen the signals between nerve and muscle.

In particular the breast is usually darker and sometimes browner than the rest of the light underside, and may appear as an indistinct band between the lighter belly and white throat.

" ) and the verse immediately below the one describing navel states ".... Your belly is a heap of wheat ...." Thus the description of the navel is placed textually in between the description of the curves of a woman through thigh and the stomach or midriff.

Belly also suggests womb and the combination of the imagery of the womb with that of wheat suggests the link between eroticism and fertility through the imagery of the navel, curvaceous thighs and belly and heap of wheat.

They dismissed the idea that the egg had been a meal for the theropod, noting that the fragments were sandwiched between the belly ribs and forelimb bones, making it impossible that they represented contents of the animal's stomach.

A series of dark brown spots is also present on the flanks, next to the belly, and are largest and darkest in the spaces between the crossbands.

The male suit is available as a normal-cut suit and a high-waisted suit that utilizes the space in between the belly button and waist of the male swimmer.

* Hybrids between the Lesser Scaup and the Redhead ( A. americana ) are recognizable by the lack of contrast between wings and belly and the dull brownish head.

It can be distinguished from Red-throated by its heavier bill, whiter mantle stripes, and contrast between its buff breast and white belly.

It can be distinguished from the slightly smaller Meadow Pipit by its heavier bill and greater contrast between its buff breast and white belly.

I went down and down between two dingy walls until I found myself at the round opening of the gigantic iron tube, which seems to undulate like a great intestine in the enormous belly of the river.

Later personified symbols were used, including Jonah, whose three days in the belly of the whale pre-figured the interval between the death and resurrection of Jesus, Daniel in the lion's den, or Orpheus ' charming the animals.

The belly of the bow ( nearest the archer ) is in compression, the back ( furthest away from the archer ) is in tension, and the line between is in shear.

This color sometimes extends to the belly and down the back, between the wings.

Little reddish wash on underparts, resulting in a crisper division between white belly and grey flanks.

The throat and belly are creamy white, separated by dark grey bands meeting between the flippers.

Prominently white patch runs between these two colours, from belly and tail, flanking the neck to the sides of crown.

On land, the King Penguin alternates between walking with a wobbling gait and tobogganing — sliding over the ice on its belly, propelled by its feet and wing-like flippers.

Like the triggerfish, filefish have small gill openings and greatly elongated pelvic bones creating a " dewlap " of skin running between the bone's sharply keeled termination and the belly.

The characteristic features of these engines are very large rear driving wheels fitted with solid rubber tyres, three-speed gearing ( most traction engine types have only two gears ), rear suspension, and belly tanks to provide a greater range between the stops needed to replenish water.