Word Meanings - ANTESTOMACH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds. Ray.

Related words: (words related to ANTESTOMACH)

• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• STOMACHAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric. 2. Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.
• STOMACH
  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
• STOMACHY
  Obstinate; sullen; haughty. A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety. R. L. Stevenson.
• STOMACHER
  1. One who stomachs.
• STOMACHFUL
  Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse. -- Stom"ach*ful*ly, adv. -- Stom"ach*ful*ness, n.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• STOMACHING
  Resentment.
• STOMACHOUS
  Stout; sullen; obstinate. With stern looks and stomachous disdain. Spenser.
• STOMACHIC
  A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.
• LEADSMAN
  The man who heaves the lead. Totten.
• STOMACHIC; STOMACHICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels. 2. Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial.
• CAVITY
  1. Hollowness. The cavity or hollowness of the place. Goodwin. 2. A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity. An instrument with a small cavity, like a small spoon. Arbuthot. Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed
• BIRDSEED
  Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
• STOMACHLESS
  1. Being without a stomach. 2. Having no appetite. Bp. Hall.
• HIGH-STOMACHED
  Having a lofty spirit; haughty. Shak.
• CONCAVITY
  A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.
• ANTESTOMACH
  A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds. Ray.