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The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food. How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled Shak.

mor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher. [Obs.] Nares. Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore The stains of ancient arms. Drayton.

To sicken; to nauseate; as, an emetic turns one's stomach. To be turned of, be advanced beyond; as, to be turned of sixty-six. -- To turn a cold shoulder to, to treat with neglect or indifference. -- To turn a corner, to go round a corner. -- To turn adrift, to cast off, to cease to care for. -- To turn a flange (M…

e; to undergo pain, grief, or anxiety; to undergothe operation of amputation; food in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion. Certain to undergo like doom. Milton.

Behind the stomach; -- said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.

h; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm. My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach. Coleridge. The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue. Macaulay.

d other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a cæcal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.

The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag. [Prov. Eng.]

The stomach. [Obs.] Whether I will or not, while I live, my heart beats, and my ventricle digests what is in it. Sir M. Hale.

One of the stomachs of certain insects.

One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; -- especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.

To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.

The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.

Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.

To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach. L'Estrange.

Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected. [Slang]

er; specifically (Zoöl.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.

Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army.

as, warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc. Not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather. Shak. Fair weather cometh out of the north. Job xxxvii. 22.

Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.