4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stomach \Stom"ach\, n. [OE. stomak, F. estomac, L. stomachus,
fr. Gr. sto`machos stomach, throat, gullet, fr. sto`ma a
mouth, any outlet or entrance.]
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. --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. [Obs.]
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. [Obs.]
He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. --Shak.
{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} (Zo["o]l.), the common roundworm ({Ascaris
lumbricoides}) found in the human intestine, and rarely in
the stomach.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stomach \Stom"ach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stomached}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Stomaching}.] [Cf. L. stomachari, v.t. & i., to be
angry or vexed at a thing.]
1. To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. --Shak.
The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the
affront. --L'Estrange.
The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his
counselors and dictators, though he stomach it.
--Milton.
2. To bear without repugnance; to brook. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stomach \Stom"ach\, v. i.
To be angry. [Obs.] --Hooker.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stomach
n 1: an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary
canal; the principal organ of digestion [syn: {tummy}, {tum},
{breadbasket}]
2: the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax
and the pelvis [syn: {abdomen}, {venter}, {belly}]
3: an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or
difficulty or unpleasantness; "he had no stomach for a
fight"
4: an appetite for food; "exercise gave him a good stomach for
dinner"
v 1: bear to eat; "He cannot stomach raw fish"
2: put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear
his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure
a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate
the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable
marriage" [syn: {digest}, {endure}, {stick out}, {bear}, {stand},
{tolerate}, {support}, {brook}, {abide}, {suffer}, {put
up}]