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noun

Vomit n.

Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth. "Like vomit from his yawning entrails poured."

(Med.) That which excites vomiting; an emetic. "He gives your Hollander a vomit."

Black vomit. (Med.) See in the Vocabulary.

Vomit nut, nux vomica.

verb

Vomit v. t.

To throw up; to eject from the stomach through the mouth; to disgorge; to puke; to spew out; often followed by up or out. "The fish... vomited out Jonah upon the dry land."

Hence, to eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit; to throw forth; as, volcanoes vomit flame, stones, etc. "Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke."

Vomit v. i. (past & past part. vomited; pres. part. vomiting) To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.

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Etymology of 'Vomit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vomit" Quotes from Famous Books

... vomited might of itself serve to distinguish the two diseases. Independently of the difference we shall notice when speaking of the black vomit, we may mention that patients complain, even sometimes from the commencement of the attack, of the acidity of the vomited matter; whereas in bilious fever, the mouth is bitter, and the matter ...

— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various

... springs, of death as of life. It would be alike futile to search amongst these mean two-storied houses for a splendid sinner as for a splendid saint; the very vices of these people smelt of cabbage water and a pothouse vomit. ...

— The Hill of Dreams • Arthur Machen

... to Jan, was taking hold of him when a knock came on the door. "Sh-h!" she warned, and Jan controlled himself. He wanted more than ever to vomit, but there came another knock on the door—and another. And ...

— Wide Courses • James Brendan Connolly

... ensconced in a cave scooped out of the rock by the side of the Nidd, and dignified by the name of S. Giles's Chapel. But the knight had had enough of it, and instante diabolo quitted his cave and made it over to Robert Thorne, and "returned like a dog to his vomit," which is a monastic way of putting the fact that he returned ...

— Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe • Sabine Baring-Gould

... verses under the title of Philippiques, which were distributed with extraordinary promptitude and abundance. La Grange, formerly page of Madame la Princesse de Conti, was the author, and did not deny it. All that hell could vomit forth, true and false, was expressed in the most beautiful verses, most poetic in style, and with all the art and talent imaginable. M. le Duc d'Orleans knew it, and wished to see the poem, but he could not succeed in getting it, for no one dared to ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

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