bely

plural belies

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of belly.

present singular third person belies · participle present belying · participle past belied · past belied · participle past belyed · past belyed

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of belie.

   And here it may be said that Tom Peregrine's name did not bely him.

   1918, J. Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village

   3 more examples

   This woman of whom he writes—whoever she be—or any one, in short, but your own dear self, mama, and Edward, may have been so barbarous to bely me.

   1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

   So he'll quickly devour the way, if only He's no booby; for all a snowy maiden Chide imperious, and her hands around him Both in jealousy clasp'd, refuse departure. 10 She, if only report the truth bely not, Doats, as hardly within her own possession. 3.

   1871, Catullus, The Poems and Fragments of Catullus

   ... the cool grey calm of his eyes belying... belying? She found the dictionary under the telephone book, sought for bely and could not find it.

   1985, William Gaddis, chapter 3, in Carpenter's Gothic, page 64

1. A surname from Russian.
2. A few settlements in Russia:
   1. A town in Tver Oblast.
   2. A khutor in Krasnodar Krai.
   3. A khutor in Oryol Oblast.