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elling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder.

pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.

ere not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs. G. Eliot.

stly marine, comprising the Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Ctenophora. The name implies that the stomach and body cavities are one. The group is sometimes enlarged so as to include the sponges.

the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot. He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune. Hayward.

r seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.

of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.

n of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach.

The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease. Stomach cough, Ear cough, cough due to irritation in the stomach or ear.

masses of calcareous matter found, at certain seasons of the year, on either side of the stomach of the European crawfishes, and formerly used in medicine for absorbent and antacid purposes; the gastroliths. -- Crab spider (Zoöl.), one of a group of spiders (Laterigradæ); -- called because they can run backwards or s…

To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food. His path is one that eminently craves weary walking. Edmund Gurney.

The stomach of an animal.

b-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound.

te; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form. "Cridities in the stomach." Arbuthnot.

portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be cheved a second time. Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. Levit. xi. 3

r Robin. [Colloq.] -- To cry cupboard, to call for food; to express hunger. [Colloq.] "My stomach cries cupboard." W. Irving.

To prepare by the heat of the stomach for assimilation; to digest; to concoct.

depart to mine own land. Num. x. 30. Ere thou from hence depart. Milton. He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. Shak.

A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.

The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.