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noun

Stomach n.

1.

(Anat.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.

2.

The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.

3.

Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire. "He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart."

4.

Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. (Obs.) "Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain." "This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent."

5.

Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. (Obs.) "He was a man Of an unbounded stomach."

Stomach pump (Med.), a small pump or syringe with a flexible tube, for drawing liquids from the stomach, or for injecting them into it.

Stomach tube (Med.), a long flexible tube for introduction into the stomach.

Stomach worm (Zool.), the common roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach.

verb

Stomach v. t. (past & past part. stomached; pres. part. stomaching)

1.

To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. "The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront." "The Parliament sit in that body... to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it."

2.

To bear without repugnance; to brook. (Colloq.)

Stomach v. i. To be angry. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stomach" Quotes from Famous Books

... a child was the blackest of the day's calamities. He experienced a strange sinking feeling in the stomach. In moments of apprehension a crook's thoughts run naturally into periods of penal servitude, and the punishment for kidnaping, The Hopper recalled, was severe. He stopped the car and inspected his unwelcome fellow passenger by the light of matches. Two big blue eyes stared ...

— A Reversible Santa Claus • Meredith Nicholson

... Spelman quotes a description of the [Greek: boulimia] or [Greek: boulimos] from Galen Med. Def., in which it is said to be "a disease in which the patient frequently craves for food, loses the use of his limbs, falls down, turns pale, feels his extremities become cold, his stomach oppressed, and his pulse feeble." Here, however, it seems to mean little more than a ...

— The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis • Xenophon

... Blackbirds, like the Golden Orioles, are "grand gobeurs" of many kinds of fruit; but the gardeners should remember that they are equally "grand gobeurs" of many kinds of insects as well, many of the most mischievous insects to the garden, including wasps (I have myself several times found wasps in the stomach of the blackbird) forming a considerable portion of their food, the young also being almost entirely fed upon worms, caterpillars, and grubs; and when we remember that it is only for a short time of the year ...

— Birds of Guernsey (1879) • Cecil Smith

... of the village they came to a roadside spring, here they paused for an instant. Mahaffy scooped up handfuls of the clear water and sucked it down greedily. The judge dropped on his stomach and buried his face in the tiny pool, gulping up great thirsty swallows. After a long breathless instant he stood erect, with drops of moisture clinging to his nose and eyebrows. Mahaffy was a dozen paces down the road, hurrying forward again with relentless vigor. ...

— The Prodigal Judge • Vaughan Kester

... called beefings; and large quantities are annually dried in the sun in America, as well as in Normandy, and stored for use during winter, when they may be stewed or made into pies. In a roasted state they are remarkably wholesome, and, it is said, strengthening to a weak stomach. In putrid and malignant fevers, when used with the juice of lemons and currants, they are considered ...

— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton

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