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A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.

Of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels.

Resentment. [Obs.]

Being without a stomach.

Stout; sullen; obstinate. [Obs.] With stern looks and stomachous disdain. Spenser.

Obstinate; sullen; haughty. A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety. R. L. Stevenson.

Somewhat glumaceous.

The powdered leaves, peduncles, and young branches of certain species of the sumac plant, used in tanning and dyeing. Poison sumac. (Bot.) See under Poison.

, or in the highest station of power; highest or supreme authority or power; as, the supremacy of a king or a parliament. The usurped power of the pope being destroyed, the crown was restored to its supremacy over spiritual men and causes. Blackstone. Oath supremacy, an oath which acknowledges the supremacy of the sove…

Of or pertaining to bullfights. -- n.

Bullfighting.

A combination of wax, resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment. Brande & C.

One who fights against the gods; one who resists God of the divine will.

A fighting against the gods, as the battle of the gaints with the gods.

Marked with three spots, or maculæ.

Of or pertaining to a suborder of urticaceous plants, of which the elm is the type.

An automatic machine gun in which the mechanism is worked by the recoil, assisted by the pressure of gases from the muzzle, which expand in a gas chamber against a disk attached to the end of the barrel, thus moving the latter to the rear with increased recoil, and against the front wall of the gas chamber, checking th…

. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a laughing." Macaulay. The hyphen may be used to connect a with the verbal substantive (as, a-hunting, a-building) or the words may be written separately. This form of expression is now for the most part obsolete, the a being omitted and the v…

nrestrainedly ; -- often in a bad sense. He abandoned himself . . . to his favorite vice. Macaulay.

il stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.