meaning of stomach
1. 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.
3. Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.
4. Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.
5. Pride; haughtiness; arrogance.
6. To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
7. To bear without repugnance; to brook.
8. To be angry.
9. an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
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