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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Examples
- The above is sufficient for two pads, which should be made into an oblong or diamond shape, with linen or muslin, and worn over the pit of the stomach. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- My stomach's bad. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I had quite lost my stomach, and was almost reduced to a skeleton. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Halliday turned objectionable, and I only just saved myself from jumping in his stomach, in a real old-fashioned row. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And how should I be able to answer, dodged in that way, in a strange place, on an empty stomach! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Believe me, Mr Roylands, if you have a stomach for fighting, I fancy there will be plenty of opportunity for you to indulge in it shortly. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- All right, shouted Maurice, who, lying flat on his stomach, was peering over. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The rats will devour the mixture and then drink, whereupon the plaster, brought into contact with the water, will become solid and like a stone in their stomachs, which will cause their deaths. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- There, sharp eyes and sharp stomachs reap even the east wind, and get something out of it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We could not properly begin a pleasure excursion on Sunday; we could not offer untried stomachs to so pitiless a sea as that. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Readers with full stomachs, who complain of being surfeited and overloaded with the story-telling trash of our circulating libraries? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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