Stomach /(?)/

Stom·ach

Stomach

n.
  1. 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. (Anat.)
  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.

Phrases & Compounds
Stomach pump
a small pump or syringe with a flexible tube, for drawing liquids from the stomach, or for injecting them into it.
Stomach tube
a long flexible tube for introduction into the stomach.
Stomach worm
the common roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach.

Stomach

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Stomached; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
  1. To be angry. [Obs.]