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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.

1 the customary toll,tax, or tribute. Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom. Rom. xiii. 7.

See Customary. [Obs.]

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

ly bright purple), with four petals and eight stamens, -- the only genus of the order Melastomaceæ inhabiting a temperate clime.

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.

fitness; as, medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often disagrees with the stomach or the taste.

To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by. To disgust him with the world and its vanities. Prescott. Ærius is expressly declared . . . to have been disgusted at failing. J. H. Newman. Alarm…

duce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach. A man whose judgment was so much disordered by party spirit. Macaulay.

Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach. Ray.

ts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc. The warmth distends the chinks. Dryden.

a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.

To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water. There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed. Spenser. The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room. Thackeray.