GIZZARD

gizzard. Gizzard, [g hard] n. the hard stomach of a fowl

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Giz″zard (?), n. [[F. gésier, L. gigeria, pl., the cooked entrails of poultry. Cf. Gigerium.]] 1. 1. (Anat.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.
2. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals. (b) A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.
Gizzard shad (Zoöl.), an American herring (Dorosoma cepedianum) resembling the shad, but of little value. — To fret the gizzard, to harass; to vex one's self; to worry. Hudibras. — To stick in one's gizzard, to be difficult of digestion; to be offensive.