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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.]

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.

A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds. Ray.

Having a lofty spirit; haughty. [Obs.] Shak.

pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.

The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.

Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.

To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food.

Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm.

Destitute of a stomach or an intestine. Owen.

of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.

A remedy for acidity of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent. -- a.