Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for STOM'ACH
STOM'ACH, v.t. [L. stomachor.]
- To resent; to remember with anger. The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront. – L'Estrange. This sense is not used in America, as far as my observation extends. In America, at least in New England, the sense is
- To brook; to bear without open resentment or without opposition. [Not elegant.]
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