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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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"Stomach" Quotes from Famous Books

... seen Peter; for he had been persuaded, much against his will, to uphold the honour of Great Britain in the middle-weights at the Olympic Games. He got a position in the papers as "P. Riley, disqualified"—the result, he could only suppose, of his folly in allowing his opponent to butt him in the stomach. He was both annoyed and amused about it; offered to fight his vanquisher any time in England; and privately thanked Heaven that he could now get back to London in time ...

— Once a Week • Alan Alexander Milne

... you are and feel as a white man should! As for Hurry Harry, I do think it would be all the same to him whether his wife were a squaw or a governor's daughter, provided she was a little comely, and could help to keep his craving stomach full." ...

— The Deerslayer • James Fenimore Cooper

... the water's edge showed signs of returning life. He turned his head cautiously. His enemies were a dozen yards away from him. Slowly he rolled over on his stomach, thence to his knees. They were paying no attention ...

— The Puppet Crown • Harold MacGrath

... The Parisian did not cease to be a Provencal; and the novelist was a lyrist still. Poet though he was, he had an intense liking for the actual, the visible, the tangible. He so hungered after truth that he was ready sometimes to stay his stomach with facts in its stead,—mere fact being but the outward husk, whereas truth is the rich kernel concealed within. His son tells us that Daudet might have taken as a motto the title of Goethe's autobiography, "Dichtung ...

— The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet

... their left arms as they gazed. There was one big doll in the middle all dressed up. It had real hair that you could comb, and it was wax. Pure wax! Yes, sir. And it could open and shut its eyes, and if you squeezed its stomach it would cry, of course, not like a real baby, but more like one of those ducks that stand on a sort of bellows thing. Though they all "chose" that doll and hoped for miracles, none of them really expected to find it in her stocking sixteen days later. (They ...

— Back Home • Eugene Wood

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