Stomach

['stʌmək]

Definition

(noun.) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion.

(noun.) an appetite for food; 'exercise gave him a good stomach for dinner'.

(noun.) an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness; 'he had no stomach for a fight'.

(verb.) bear to eat; 'He cannot stomach raw fish'.

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Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.

(n.) Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.

(n.) Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.

(n.) Pride; haughtiness; arrogance.

(v. t.) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.

(v. t.) To bear without repugnance; to brook.

(v. i.) To be angry.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Appetite.[2]. Inclination, desire, taste, liking.

v. a. Brook, endure, bear, suffer, put up with.

Editor: Miles

Definition

n. the strong muscular bag into which the food passes when swallowed and where it is principally digested: the cavity in any animal for the digestion of its food: appetite relish for food inclination generally: disposition spirit courage pride spleen.—v.t. to brook or put up with: to turn the stomach of: to resent.—adj. Stom′achal.—ns. Stom′acher a part of the dress covering the front of the body generally forming the lower part of the bodice in front sometimes richly ornamented: a large brooch; Stomach′ic a medicine for the stomach.—adjs. Stomach′ic -al pertaining to the stomach: strengthening or promoting the action of the stomach; Stom′achous (Spens.) angry stout obstinate.—ns. Stom′ach-pump a syringe with a flexible tube for withdrawing fluids from the stomach or injecting them into it; Stom′ach-stag′gers a disease in horses due to a paralytic affection of the stomach.

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