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The substance of apples, or of similar fruit, crushed by grinding.

Pertaining to the Pomacentridæ, a family of bright-colored tropical fishes having spiny opercula; -- often called coral fishes.

Like pomace.

condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy. [R.] De Quincey.

A conflict of the soul with the body.

Same as Pomace.

The cat-tail.

Any dry dehiscent fruit.

See Sciomachy.

A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat. [Written also scimachy.] Cowley.

Sumac.

A machine the operation of which is started by dropping a coin into a slot, for delivering small articles of merchandise, showing one's weight, exhibiting pictures, throwing dice, etc.

Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively. So quickly they have taken a smack in covetousness. Robynson (More's Utopia). They felt the smack of this world. Latimer.

A sharp, quick noise; a smack. Like the faint smacking of an after kiss. Dryden.

ereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases. The substance of spermaceti after the removal of certain impurities is sometimes called cetin. Spermaceti whale (Zoöl.), the sperm whale.

Squamose.

The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric.

One who stomachs.

Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse. [Obs.] -- Stom"ach*ful*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Stom"ach*ful*ness, n. [Obs.]