stomach

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The enlarged, saclike portion of the digestive tract, one of the principal organs of digestion, located in vertebrates between the esophagus and the small intestine.
• noun A similar digestive structure of many invertebrates.
• noun Any of the four compartments into which the stomach of a ruminant is divided.
• noun The abdomen or belly.
• noun An appetite for food.
• noun A desire or inclination, especially for something difficult or unpleasant.
• noun Courage; spirit.
• noun Obsolete Pride.
• transitive verb To bear; tolerate.
• transitive verb Obsolete To resent.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To encourage; hearten.
• To hate; resent; remember or regard with anger or resentment.
• To put up with; bear without open resentment or opposition: as, to stomach an affront.
• To turn the stomach of; disgust.
• To be or become angry.
• noun The throat; the gullet; the mouth.
• noun A more or less sac-like part of the body where food is digested.
• noun The digestive person or alimentary zooid of a compound polyp. See gasterozooid.
• noun In most insects of the orders Lepidoptera, Diptera, and some Hymenoptera, a bladder-like expansion of the esophagus, which can be dilated at the will of the insect; the sucking-stomach, by means of which the nectar of flowers or other liquid is sucked up, as water is drawn into a syringe.
• noun Appetite; desire or relish for food: as, to have a good stomach for one's meals.
• noun Hence Relish; taste; inclination; liking: as, to have no stomach for controversy.
• noun Disposition.
• noun Compassion; pity.
• noun Courage; spirit.
• noun Pride; haughtiness; conceit.
• noun Spleen; anger; choler; resentment; sullenness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb obsolete To be angry.
• noun (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.
• noun The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite.
• noun Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.
• noun obsolete Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.
• noun obsolete Pride; haughtiness; arrogance.
• noun (Med.) a small pump or syringe with a flexible tube, for drawing liquids from the stomach, or for injecting them into it.
• noun (Med.) a long flexible tube for introduction into the stomach.
• noun (Zoöl.) the common roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach.
• transitive verb To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
• transitive verb colloq. To bear without repugnance; to brook.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
• noun informal The belly.
• noun obsolete Pride, haughtiness.
• noun obsolete Appetite.
• noun figuratively Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
• verb transitive To be able to tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to be able to stand or handle something.
• verb obsolete, intransitive To be angry.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
• noun an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness
• verb put up with something or somebody unpleasant
• noun an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
• noun an appetite for food