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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

... by the loss of any teeth, nor were they circumcised. They were a well-made race, with a sufficiency of muscular development, and stood as erect as it was possible to do, without the unseemly protrusion of stomach, so common among the generality of natives. Of sixty-nine who I counted round me at one time, I do not think there was one under my own height, 5 feet 10 3/4 inches, but there were several upwards of 6 feet. ...

— Expedition into Central Australia • Charles Sturt

... ancestors had come over with the Conqueror, or "drawn a good bow at Hastings," . . . and yet her pride invariably melted at the sight of certain surreptitious quantities of tobacco, with which I made my court to this high priestess of the region sacred to the stomach. ...

— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly

... his nose, any more than you would flog a pointer for being keener on the scent than a stupid watch-dog. The fact is, if you had all the churches free, by reason of the mixing of the common people with the uncommon, you would keep one-half of Christendom sick at their stomach. If you are going to kill the church thus with bad smells I will have nothing to do ...

— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... the two young swains made merry with the other girls and Miss Penny simpered and Miss Ardle was correspondingly caustic. Joe sat back with his head against a tree and a hard, tired smile about his mouth, and a restlessness in the pit of his stomach. He tried not to look at Myrtle and Hawkins. And once when the crowd surged in a moment's boisterousness over to another part of the picnic grounds he stretched himself, rubbed his eyes with the back of his hands to get the smart out of them, and ...

— Stubble • George Looms

... made them vital. He had been transferred to the Italian front from Russia, where his unripe battalion had lain in reserve throughout his service; his experiences of the rush over the Isonzo, of the Italian debacle and the occupation of the province of Friuli, lay undigested on his mental stomach. It was as though by a single violent gesture he had translated himself from the quiet life in his regiment, which had become normal and familiar, to the hush and mystery of the vast Italian plain, ...

— Those Who Smiled - And Eleven Other Stories • Perceval Gibbon

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