Word Meanings - STOMACH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
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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. Shak. 3. Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire. He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. Shak. 4. Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain. Spenser. This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent. Locke. 5. Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. Shak. 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 found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach. (more info) sto`machos stomach, throat, gullet, fr. sto`ma a mouth, any outlet or
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