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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Stomach \Stom"ach\, v. i. To be angry. [Obs.]

--Hooker.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)