Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.