Word Meanings - STOMACHOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to STOMACHOUS)

• 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