stomach 
7. Disposition, (a) Spirit; temper; heart 
Though I bee not worthie to receive any favor at the 
handes of your nmistership, yet is your excellente herte 
and noble stumake worthie to shewe favour. 
Ifdall, in Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 4. 
This was no small Magnanimity in the King, that he was 
able to pull down the high Stomachs of the Prelates in 
that time. Baker, Chronicles, p. 60. 
(6t) Compassion ; pity. 
Nere ruyn extorcioun I myghte nat lyven, 
Nor of swiche japes wol I nat be shryven, 
Stomak ne conscience ne knowe I noon. 
Chaucer, Friar's Tale, 1. 143. 
(c) Courage ; spirit. 
For in them, as men of stowter stomackes, bolder spirites, 
and manlyer courages then hamlycrnftus men and plowe- 
men be, doth consiste the whole powre, strength, and 
puissaunce of oure army, when we muste fight in battayle. 
Sir T. More, Utopia, tr. by Kobinson, p. 39. 
(it) Pride; haughtiness; conceit. 
He was a man 
Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking 
Himself with princes. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., iv. 2. 34. 
(et) Spleen ; anger ; choler ; resentment ; sullenness. 
From that time King Richard, mooued in stomacke 
against King Philip, neuer shewed any gentle countenance 
of peace & amitie. Hakluyfe Voyages, II. 23. 
Many learned men haue written, with moch diuersitie 
for the matter, and therfore with great contrarietie and 
some stomacke amongest them selues. 
Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 123. 
Which might teach these times not suddenly to con- 
demn all things that are sharply spoken, or vehemently 
written, as proceeding out of stomach, virulence, and ill 
nature. Milton, Church-Government, ii., Int. 
Circulating stomach, one of the temporary food-vacu- 
oles of an infusorial) or other protozoan, which moves 
about with a kind of cyclosis. See Polygastrica. Frigid- 
ity Of the Stomach, a state of gastric debility formerly 
considered to depend on sexual excesses. Fullness of 
the stomach, a feeling of weight or distention in the 
epigastric region. Glandular stomach. Seepronentric- 
ulus. Hypogenesia of the stomach, unnatural small- 
ness of the stomach, seen in some children. Mastica- 
tory stomach. See masticatory. Muscular stomach. 
See muscular and gizzard. Pit of the stomach, the de- 
pression just below the sternum : same as epigastrium, 1. 
Also called infrasternal fossa, scrobicidus corrfw, and anti- 
cardium. Proud stomach, a haughty disposition. Com- 
pare def. 7. 
Truths whilk are as unwelcome to a proud stomach as 
wet clover to a cow's. Scoff, Pirate, xviil. 
Rugae Of the stomach, folds of the mucous membrane, 
present when the organ is contracted, and extending for 
the most part in a longitudinal direction. See cut in def. 
2. Sour stomach, that condition of the stomach which 
causesacid eructations. Sucking-Stomach. See def. 4. 
To stay the stomach. See stay'*. 
Stomach (stum'ak), v. [= OF. cstomaqucr = 
Sp. Pg. fstomagar = It. stomacare, disgust, refl. 
feel disgust, < L. stomacltari, feel disgust, be 
angry, < stomachus, distaste, dislike, stomach : 
see stomach, n.] I, trans, If. To encourage ; 
hearten. 
When he had stomached them by the Holy Ghost to 
shoot forth his word without fear, he went forward with 
them by his grace, conquering in them the prince of this 
world. Bp. Bale, Select Works (Parker Soc.X p. 313. 
2f. To hate; resent; remember or regard with 
anger or resentment. 
If that any stomach this my deed, 
Alphonsus can revenge thy wrong with speed. 
Greene, Alphonsus, ill. 
A plague on them all for me ! ... 0, 1 do stomach them 
hugely. B. Jonson, livery Man in his Humour, iii. 2. 
3. To put up with ; bear without open resent- 
ment or opposition : as, to stomach an affront. 
"The priests talk," said he, "of absolution in such 
terms that laymen -can not stomach it." 
Motley, Dutch Republic, I. 76. 
4. To turn the stomach of ; disgust. [Rare.] 
It is not because the restaurants are very dirty if you 
wipe your plate and glass carefully before using them, 
they need not stomach you. Howetts, Venetian Life, vi. 
Il.t intrans. To be or become angry. 
What one among them commonly doth not stomach at 
such contradiction? Hooker. 
stomachal (stum'ak-al), a. and . [= F. stoma- 
cal = Sp. Pg. egtomdcal = It. stomacale, < NL. 
"stomachalis, < L. stomachus, stomach: see 
stomach.] I. a. 1. Of or pertaining to the 
stomach; gastric: as, stomachal tubes. 
The body-wall, which encloses the stomachal cavity. 
Gegenbaur, Comp. Anat. (trans.X p. 92. 
2. Relating to the stomach, or to a region of 
the body which contains the stomach; gastric ; 
epigastric ; abdominal ; ventral : as, the stom- 
achal part of a crab's carapace. 3. Remedial 
of a disordered stomach; peptic or digestive; 
cordial; stomachic ._ Stomachal teeth, sharp, horny 
processes of the lining of the proventriculus, and some- 
times of other parts of the alimentary canal, found in 
many insects and crustaceans, and serving for the com- 
minution of food. 
II. . A stomachic. 
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stomach-animalst (stum'ak-an"i-malz), . i>l. 
The lufumiriit. See Piilyijastrii'ti. <>/,< n. 
stomach-brush (stum'ak-brush), . A brush 
designed to be introduced into the stomach, by 
way of the esophagus, to stimulate secretion. 
stomach-COUgh (stum'ak-kof), H. A form of 
reflex cough excited by irritation of the stomach 
or small intestine. 
stomacher (stum'ak-er), n. [< stomach, v., + 
-erl.] 1. One who stomachs, in any sense of 
the word. 2f. A stomachic; an appetizer. 
In Sir Kenelm Digby's "Choice and Experimentel Re- 
ceipts in Physick and Chirurgery" (London. 1675) I find a 
preparation of herbs for external application with this 
heading: "To strengthen the stomach use the following 
stomacher." JV. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 173. 
3. A part of the dress covering the front of the 
body, generally forming the lower part of the 
bodice in front and usually projecting down 
into the skirt or lapping over it the name be- 
ing given to the whole front piece covering the 
pit of the stomach and the breast, in some fash- 
ions the stomacher was richly embroidered, and ornament- 
ed with jewels, as in Europe in the sixteenth century. 
Less fashionable ladies, between 1615 and 1625, discard- 
ed the tight and pointed stomacher and farthingale, and 
wore, over an easy jerkin and ample petticoat, a loose 
gown open in front, made high to meet the ruff. 
Encyc. Brit., VI. 473. 
4. A plaque or brooch, usually large, the name 
being derived from that part of the dress upon 
which the brooch was worn. J. B. Atkinson, 
Art Jour. (1867), p. 203. 
stomachfult (stum'ak-ful), a. [Early mod. E. 
also stomackfull; < stomach + -ful.] Full of 
stomach or wilfulness ; proud ; spirited ; wilful ; 
perverse ; stubborn ; sturdy. 
From all those Tartars he hath had an Army of an hun- 
dred and twenty thousand excellent, swift, stomack.fvU 
Tartarian horse. Copt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 39. 
Nay, if I had but any body to stand by me, I am as stam- 
achful as another. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, iii. 1. 
stomachfullyt (stum'ak-ful-i), adv. In a stom- 
achful, or perverse or wilful, manner; stub- 
bornly; perversely. Bp. Hall, The Golden Calf . 
stomachfulnesst (stum'ak-ful-nes), n. Stub- 
bornness; perverseness ; wilfulness. 
Pride, stomachfulness, headiness avail but little. 
Granger, On Eccles. (1621), p. 248. 
stomach-grief (stum'ak-gref), H. Anger. 
Stomacke grief Is when we wil take the matter as hot as 
a toste. We neede no examples for this matter, hot men 
have to many. Sir T. Wilson, Art of Rhetoric. 
stomachic (sto-mak'ik), a. and . [= F. sto- 
maehique = Sp. estomdtico = Pg. estomachico = 
It. stomachico, < L. stomachicus, < Gr. oro/ia^ocof , 
pertaining to the stomach, < oro/ia^of, the stom- 
ach: see stomach.] I. a. Of or pertaining to 
the stomach, (a) Stomachal ; gastric : as, stomachic 
vessels or nerves. (6) Specifically, sharpening the api 
tite, and stimulating gastric digestion. See stomachal, 3. 
He [Boswell] was . . . gluttonously fond of whatever 
would yield him a little solacement, were it only of a 
stomachic character. Carl/ile, Boswell's Johnson. 
Stomachic balsam, a mixture of balsam of Peru with 
oil of nutmeg and other volatile oils, as those of worm- 
wood, cloves, mace, peppermint, orange-peel, and amber, 
made up in different proportions. Stomachic calcu- 
lus, a concretion, usually containing hair, found in the 
stomach, particularly of lower animals. See bezoar. Sto- 
machic fever, gastric fever. See/ewrl. 
II. . A medicine which sharpens the appe- 
tite, and is supposed to stimulate digestion, as 
the bitter tonics ; a stomachal. 
stomachical (sto-mak'i-kal), a. [< stomachic 
+ -al.] Same as stomachic. Wiseman, Sur- 
gery, i. 18. 
Stomaching! (stum'ak-ing), n. [Verbal n. of 
stomach, v.] Resentment. Shak., A. and C., 
ii. 2. 9. 
stomachless (stum'ak-les), a. [Early mod. E. 
stomacklesse; < stomach + -less.] Lacking stom- 
ach; having no appetite. Bp. Hall, Balm of 
Gilead, ii. 6. 
stomachoust (stum'ak-us), a. [< L. stomacJio- 
sus, angry, choleric, < stomachus, distaste, dis- 
like: see stomach.] Resentful; sullen; obsti- 
nate. 
Young blood is hot; youth hasty; ingenuity open; 
abuse impatient ; choler stomachous. 
O. Harvey, Four Letters. 
stomach-piece (stum'ak-pes), . In ship-carp., 
same as apron, 3. 
Stomach-plaster (stum'ak-plis'ter), n. See 
plaster. 
Stomach-pump (stum'ak-pump), n. A small 
pump or syringe used in medical practice for 
the purpose of emptying the stomach or of in- 
troducing liquids into it. It resembles the common 
syringe, except that it has two apertures near the end, in- 
stead of one, In which the valves open different ways, so as 
stomatitis 
to constitute a sucking and a forcing passage. When the 
object is to empty the stomach, the pump is worked while 
its sucking orifice is in connection with a flexible tube 
passed into the stomach ; and the extracted matter es- 
capes by the forcing orifice. When, on the contrary, the 
object is to force a liquid into the stomach, the tube is 
connected with the forcing orifice, by which the action of 
the pump is reversed. It is now not much used, the stom- 
ach being emptied, when necessary, by the stomach-tube 
working as a siphon. 
Stomach-qualmed (stum'ak-kwamd) ? a. Same 
as stomiu'li-x/ck. Shak., Cymbeline, iii. 4. 193. 
Stomach-sick (stum'ak-s'ik), (i. Nauseated; 
qualmish; hence, having an aversion. 
Receiuing some hurt in his stomack by drinking those 
cold waters, he proued stomach-Kick to his expedition also. 
1'urchas, Pilgrimage, p. 289. 
stomach-staggers (stum'ak-stag"erz), n. A 
disease in horses, depending on a paralytic af- 
fection of the stomach. The animal so affected 
dozes in the stable, resting his head in the manger; on 
awaking, or being aroused, he falls to eating, and contin- 
ues to eat voraciously, death from apoplexy or repletion 
often resulting. 
stomach-sweetbread (stum'ak-swet'bred), . 
The pancreas of the calf, as used for food : dis- 
tinguished from the throat-siveetbread, or thy- 
mus gland of the sanfe animal. 
stomach-timber (stum'ak-tiin"ber), n. Same 
as belly-timber. [Slang. J 
As Prior tells, a clever poet, . . . 
The main strength of ev'ry member 
Depends upon the stomach timber. 
Combe, Dr. Syntax's Tours, xxxiii. 
stomach-tooth (stum'ak-toth), . A lower ca- 
nine milk-tooth of infants: so called because 
there is often gastric disturbance at the time 
of its appearance. 
Stomach-tube (stum'ak-tub), . A long flexi- 
ble tube to be introduced into the stomach, 
through the gullet, as for washing out the stom- 
ach. 
stomach-worm (sturo'ak-werm), n. Acommon 
intestinal roundworm", Ascaris lumbricoides, 
sometimes found in the human stomach. 
stomachy (stum'ak-i), a. [< stomach + -yl.] 
Proud; haughty; irascible; easily offended. 
Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
stomackt, stomakt, stomaket, n. Obsolete 
spellings of stomach. 
Stomapod (sto'ma-pod), a. and n. Same as sto- 
matopod. 
Stomapoda (sto-map'o-da), . pi. [NL., < Gr. 
or<fy/a, mouth, + jrotlf (TOO-) = E. foot.] Same 
as Stomatopoda. Latreille, 1817. 
stoniapodiform (sto-ma-pod'i-fdrm), o. [< NL. 
Stomapoda + L. forma, form.] Resembling or 
shaped like a stomatopod, especially of the ge- 
nus Squilla. Applied in entomology to certain elon- 
gate, somewhat flattened larva; which have the abdomen 
wider than the thorax, long antennae, and si: legs, the 
anterior pair being large and raptorial. In aquatic species 
the body is furnished with lateral false gills. The larvee of 
Ephemera are examples of this form. 
stomapodoUS (sto-map'o-dus), a. [< stomapod 
+ -ous.] Same as stomatopod. 
stomata. n. Plural of stoma. 
stomatal (sto'ma-tal), a. [< NL. stomakt-) + 
-al.] In bot. a.uSzoo'1., relating or belonging to 
stomata. 
stomate (sto'mat), a. and ti. [< NL. *stomatus 
foT*stomatatus, < stoma (stomat-), a stoma: see 
stoma.] I. a. Having a stoma or stomata; sto- 
matous. 
II. . A stoma. 
stomatia, n. Plural of stomatium. 
stomatic (sto-mat'ik), a. and n. [= It. stomati- 
co, < Gr. arofiaTiKov, of or pertaining to the mouth, 
< or6[ta(T-), mouth: see stoma.] I. a. In zool. 
and bot., of or pertaining to a stoma or sto- 
mata; oral. 
II. n. A medicine for diseases of the mouth. 
stomatiferous (sto-ma-tif 'e-rus), a. [< NL. s*o- 
ma(t-) + L. ferre, bear, carry: see -ferous.] 
Bearing or provided with stomata ; stomatoph- 
orous. 
stomatitis (sto-ma-ti'tis), B. [NL., < Gr. oro- 
/JO(T-), mouth, + -itis.] Inflammation of the 
interior of the mouth, including the mucous 
membrane of the lips, gums, tongue, cheeks, 
and palate Aphthous stomatitis, inflammation of 
the mucous membrane of the mouth-cavity, consisting in 
the formation of small superficial ulcers. Also called opA- 
thfe, canker sore mouth, follicular or vesicidar stomatitis. 
Catarrhal stomatitis, a simple local or general inflam- 
mation of the mucous membrane of the mouth-cavity. 
Alsocalled oral catarrh, erifthema of the mouth, anderythem- 
atous, simple, and superficial stomatitis. Gangrenous 
stomatitis. See noma. Mercurial stomatitis, an in- 
flammation of the mucous membrane of the mouth, with 
ulceration, caused by mercurial poisoning. Parasitic 
stomatitis, inflammation of the mouth due to or compli- 
cated with the growth on the mucous membrane of Oidium 
albicans. Also called thrush, pseudomembranous stomatitis. 
