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Word Meanings - STOMACHOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Stout; sullen; obstinate. With stern looks and stomachous disdain. Spenser.

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  • STERNFOREMOST
    With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
  • STERNUTATORY
    Sternutative. -- n.
  • STERNOHYOID
    Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
  • STERNAL
    Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum. Sternal ribs. See the Note under Rib, n., 1.
  • DISDAINISHLY
    Disdainfully. Vives.
  • STERNSMAN
    A steersman.
  • DISDAINFUL
    Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty. From these Turning disdainful to an equal good. Akenside. -- Dis*dain"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*dain"ful*ness, n.
  • STERNMOST
    Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.
  • STERNOMASTOID
    Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.
  • STERNSON
    The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.
  • DISDAINED
    Disdainful. Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt Of this proud king. Shak.
  • STERNAGE
    Stern. Shak.
  • STERNNESS
    The quality or state of being stern.
  • STERN
    The black tern.
  • STERNOCOSTAL
    Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.
  • OBSTINATE
    a thing with firmness, to persist in; ob + a word from the 1. Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.
  • STOMACHOUS
    Stout; sullen; obstinate. With stern looks and stomachous disdain. Spenser.
  • DISDAIN
    1. A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn. How my soul is moved with just disdain! Pope. Note: Often implying an idea of haughtiness. Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes. Shak. 2.
  • STERNER
    A director. Dr. R. Clerke.
  • STERNED
    Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.
  • PROSTERNATION
    Dejection; depression. Wiseman.
  • EPISTERNUM
    One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects. (more info) A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle. Same as Epiplastron.
  • SUPRASTERNAL
    Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum.
  • PINK STERN
    See PINK
  • PINK-STERNED
    Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.
  • DISPENSER
    One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
  • ENDOSTERNITE
    The part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in Crustacea and insects.
  • LATISTERNAL
    Having a broad breastbone, or sternum; -- said of anthropoid apes.
  • HYPOSTERNUM
    See HYPOPLASTRON

 

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