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One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South.

One who does anything customarily or habitually.

ects of happiness devised by human reason. Rogers. He entered into the project with his customary ardor. Prescott.

The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.

The third stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies.

bilobed lophophore and an axial cord. The genus Rhabdopleura is the type. Called also Podostomata. See Rhabdopleura.

To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew. The infant Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Shak.

ned) friends." E. Hall. Thus things indifferent, being esteemed useful or pious, became customary, and then came for reverence into a putative and usurped authority. Jer. Taylor.

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pylorus; as, the pyloric end of the stomach.

The opening from the stomach into the intestine.

Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit. Shak. -- Qualm"ish*ly, adv. -- Qualm"ish*ness, n.

Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish.

Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen. The air is quick there, And it pierces and sharpens the stomach. Shak.

The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.

To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call. Chaucer.

The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. [Prov. Eng. or Scot.]

To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back. Hayward.

to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; a regular verb; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular building.

To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back. The food may regurgitatem the stomach into the esophagus and mouth. Quain.

A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet. An inn, the free rendezvous of all travelers. Sir W. Scott.