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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.
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2. The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef. Shak.
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3. Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.
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He which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart.
Shak.
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4. Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. [Obs.]
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Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain. Spenser.
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This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent. Locke.
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5. Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. [Obs.]
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He was a man
Of an unbounded stomach.
Shak.
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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&ö;l.), the common roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach.
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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.
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The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront. L'Estrange.
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The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it. Milton.
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2. To bear without repugnance; to brook. [Colloq.]
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Stom"ach, v. i. To be angry. [Obs.] Hooker.
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