[f. BELL v.4 + -ING2.]
† 1. gen. Roaring, bellowing. Obs.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 92. Loud the lowbye brayed with belling monsterus eccho. Ibid., IV. 120. With belling skrichcrye she roareth.
2. spec. Uttering the cry of deer in rutting-time.
1650. Fuller, Pisgah, III. ix. 338. Here … the belling Roes [are said] to bed.
