Word Meanings - STOMACHAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric. 2. Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.

Related words: (words related to STOMACHAL)

• CORDIALNESS
  Cordiality. Cotgrave.
• STOMACHAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric. 2. Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.
• STOMACHY
  Obstinate; sullen; haughty. A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety. R. L. Stevenson.
• HELPLESS
  1. Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant. How shall I then your helpless fame defend Pope. 2. Beyond help; irremediable. Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either
• STOMACHER
  1. One who stomachs.
• STOMACHFUL
  Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse. -- Stom"ach*ful*ly, adv. -- Stom"ach*ful*ness, n.
• STOMACHING
  Resentment.
• STOMACHOUS
  Stout; sullen; obstinate. With stern looks and stomachous disdain. Spenser.
• STOMACHIC
  A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• CORDIALIZE
  1. To make into a cordial. 2. To render cordial; to reconcile.
• HELPER
  One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish. Thou art the helper of the fatherless. Ps. x. 14. Compassion . . . oftentimes a helper of evils. Dr. H. More.
• CORDIAL
  1. Proceeding from the heart. A rib with cordial spirits warm. Milton. 2. Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate. He . . . with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamored. Milton. 3. Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength
• GASTRIC
  Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery. Gastric digestion , the conversion of the albuminous portion of food in the stomach into soluble and diffusible products by the solvent action of gastric juice. -- Gastric
• HELPFUL
  Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary. Heavens make our presence and our practices Pleasant and helpful to him! Shak. -- Help"ful*ly, adv. -- Help"ful*ness, n. Milton.
• STOMACHIC; STOMACHICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels. 2. Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial.
• HELPMATE
  A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife. In Minorca the ass and the hog are common helpmates, and are yoked together in order to turn up the land. Pennant. A waiting woman was generally considered as the most suitable helpmate for a parson.
• HELPMEET
  A wife; a helpmate. The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs and thence made woman. J. H. Newman.
• CORDIALITY
  1. Relation to the heart. That the ancients had any respect of cordiality or reference unto the heart, will much be doubted. Sir T. Browne. 2. Sincere affection and kindness; warmth of regard; heartiness. Motley.
• HELP
  helpen, G. helfen, OHG. helfan, Icel. hjalpa, Sw. hjelpa, Dan. 1. To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help
• HIGH-STOMACHED
  Having a lofty spirit; haughty. Shak.
• PRECORDIAL
  Situated in front of the heart; of or pertaining to the præcordia.
• MESOGASTRIC
  Of or pertaining to the middle gastric lobe of the carapace of a crab. (more info) Of or pertaining to the middle region of the abdomen, or of the stomach. Of or pertaining to the mesogaster.
• METAGASTRIC
  Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.
• HEPATOGASTRIC
  See GASTROHEPATIC
• STOMATOGASTRIC
  Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca.
• UROGASTRIC
  Behind the stomach; -- said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.
• POLYGASTRICA
  The Infusoria.
• PERIGASTRIC
  Surrounding the stomach; -- applied to the body cavity of Bryozoa and various other Invertebrata.