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Stomach

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.

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Ache 84% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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Ache 84% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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Hurt 84% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Hurt 84% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Suffer 84% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Suffer 84% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Abomasum 76% connected

Alt. of Abomasus

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Craw 76% connected

The crop of a bird.

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Crop 76% connected

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

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Omasum 76% connected

The third division of the stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies, and Illust. under Ruminant.

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Psalterium 76% connected

The third stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies.

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Reticulum 76% connected

The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb stomach.

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Rumen 76% connected

The first stomach of ruminants; the paunch; the fardingbag. See Illust. below.

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Manner of action 3

Accept 76% connected

To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

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Pay 76% connected

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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Swallow 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They h…

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Allow 76% connected

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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Appetence 76% connected

A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency.

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Appetency 76% connected

Fixed and strong desire; esp. natural desire; a craving; an eager appetite.

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Appetite 76% connected

The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.

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Countenance 76% connected

To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.

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Digest 76% connected

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

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Let 76% connected

To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

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Permit 76% connected

To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.

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Viscus 76% connected

One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; -- especially used in the plural, and applied to…

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Derivationally related 2

Stomachic 74% connected

Alt. of Stomachical

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Stomachic 74% connected

Alt. of Stomachical

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Component part 10

Ab 70% connected

The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August.

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Abdomen 70% connected

The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains…

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Abdominal 70% connected

Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity.

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Bowel 70% connected

One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.

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Gut 70% connected

A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.

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Hypochondrium 70% connected

Either of the hypochondriac regions.

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Intestine 70% connected

Internal; inward; -- opposed to external.

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Navel 70% connected

A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus. See Umbilicus.

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Omphalos 70% connected

The navel.

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Umbilicus 70% connected

The depression, or mark, in the median line of the abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus; the navel.

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Containing whole 3

Body 70% connected

The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

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Torso 70% connected

The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.

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Trunk 70% connected

The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.

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Synonym 13

Abdomen 92% connected

The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains…

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Abide 92% connected

To wait; to pause; to delay.

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Bear 92% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Belly 92% connected

That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.

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Breadbasket 92% connected

The stomach.

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Brook 92% connected

A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

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Digest 92% connected

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

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Endure 92% connected

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

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Stand 92% connected

To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position

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Suffer 92% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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Support 92% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Tolerate 92% connected

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with;…

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Venter 92% connected

One who vents; one who utters, reports, or publishes.

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