ingluvies

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  1. In zoology, a crop, craw, or some other dilatation of the digestive tube situated in advance of the true stomach or digestive cavity proper. Specifically— In ornithology, the crop or craw. The œsophagus of many birds becomes modified into a special pouch—the crop or craw, ingluvies, where the food is detained to be macerated in a special secretion before passing on to the true stomach. Coues, Key to N. A. Birds, p. 212.
  2. In mammalogy, the paunch or rumen of a ruminant.
  3. In entomology, an expansion of the esophagus forming a kind of preliminary stomach or crop, before the proventriculus. In many haustellate insects it is transformed into an expansible sucking-stomach, and in some groups it is wanting. The ingluvies lies in the posterior part of the thorax or partly in the abdomen. See cut under Blattidæ.

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  • Antiquitatibus Italiae Medii Aevi.] [Footnote 91: Domini tui milites (says the proud Nicephorus) equitandi ignari pedestris pugnae sunt inscii: scutorum magnitudo, loricarum gravitudo, ensium longitudo galearumque pondus neutra parte pugnare cossinit; ac subridens, impedit, inquit, et eos gastrimargia, hoc est ventris ingluvies, &c. Liutprand in Legat.p. 480 481] [Footnote 92: In Saxonia certe scio .... decentius ensibus pugnare quam calanis, et prius mortem obire quam hostibus terga dare, (Liutprand, p —  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
 

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  1. Latin, perhaps from in, in, + glutire, swallow: see glut.
 

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