\Stom"ach\, n. [OE. stomak, F. estomac, L. stomachus,
fr. Gr. sto`machos stomach, throat, gullet, fr. sto`ma a
mouth, any outlet or entrance.]
1. (Anat.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the
   anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is
   digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an
   animal; a digestive cavity. See {Digestion}, and {Gastric
   juice}, under {Gastric}.
2. The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good
   stomach for roast beef. --Shak.
3. Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.
         He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him
         depart.                               --Shak.
4. Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful
   obstinacy; stubbornness. [Obs.]
         Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain.
                                               --Spenser.
         This sort of crying proceeding from pride,
         obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault
         lies, must be bent.                   --Locke.
5. Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. [Obs.]
         He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. --Shak.
{Stomach pump} (Med.), a small pump or syringe with a
   flexible tube, for drawing liquids from the stomach, or
   for injecting them into it.
{Stomach tube} (Med.), a long flexible tube for introduction
   into the stomach.
{Stomach worm} (Zo["o]l.), the common roundworm ({Ascaris
   lumbricoides}) found in the human intestine, and rarely in
   the stomach.

\Stom"ach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stomached}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Stomaching}.] [Cf. L. stomachari, v.t. & i., to be
angry or vexed at a thing.]
1. To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. --Shak.
         The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the
         affront.                              --L'Estrange.
         The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his
         counselors and dictators, though he stomach it.
                                               --Milton.
2. To bear without repugnance; to brook. [Colloq.]

\Stom"ach\, v. i.
To be angry. [Obs.] --Hooker.