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vomit

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vomit \Vom"it\, n. [L. vomitus, from vomere, vomitum, to vomit; akin to Gr. ?, Skr. vam, Lith. vemiti. Cf. Emetic , Vomito .] Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth. Like vomit from his yawning entrails poured. --Sandys. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Latin vomitus , past participle of vomitare (see vomit (n.)). Related: Vomited ; vomiting .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Vomit may refer to: Vomiting Fake vomit , a novelty item designed to look like mucus or vomit

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit up , purge , cast , sick , cat , be sick , disgorge ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The regurgitated former contents of a stomach. 2 The act of regurgitating. 3 (context obsolete English) That which causes vomiting; an emetic. vb. 1 To regurgitate the contents of a stomach; puke. 2 To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to ...

Usage examples of vomit.

Right now the only one of us tars actually working was Halle, who was chasing down a pool of vomit sicked up by Pael, the Academician, the only non-Navy personnel on the bridge.

A thin and jaundiced face, deep lines and shaven head, mouth adrip with vomit, staring in horror.

Reaching the rail, he sagged over it and vomited up his supper, dimly aware that Alec was at his side.

He had ingested, the report stated succinctly, amylobarbitone, pethidine and alcohol in sufficient quantities to cause his death, although what had actually killed him was suffocation, as, after he had slid into unconsciousness, he had choked on his own vomit.

Admiral Chu Hua-Feng, current commanding officer of the MSDF submarine Artic Storm and admiral-in-command of a fleet of the most advanced submarines in history, bent over and vomited.

Why did he pick at one of the cuts on his legs until it bled, then mix the blood and semen and bring some of it to his mouth, where its odd bleachy, metallic smell almost made him vomit once more?

He teaches that a teaspoonful of the bruised seeds if boiled in water and taken hot with bread soaked therein, wonderfully helps such as are languishing from hardened excrements, even though they may have vomited up their faeces.

She was not coughing or vomiting, and Kivrin hoped the buboes had simply not developed yet.

So was Bures, and now Currald, apparently unconscious, vomited copiously, gagging on it.

Peebles mentions a case of suspension of the functions of the kidneys more than once for five weeks, the patient exhibiting neither coma, stupor, nor vomiting.

Hashimoto, Surgeon-General of the Imperial Japanese Army, tells of a woman of forty-nine who was in the habit of inducing vomiting by irritating her fauces and pharynx with a Japanese toothbrush--a wooden instrument six or seven inches long with bristles at one end.

Loud peals of thunder broke, and could scarcely be distinguished from the rumblings of the mountain, whose mouth vomited forth ignited rocks, which, hurled to more than a thousand feet, burst in the air like shells.

Among the older writers we find Ficker and the Ephemerides giving instances of exophthalmos from vomiting.

Half a mile from the tracks he fell to his knees again, and gagged and retched as he vomited up the whisky and his own disgust.

Then from the gleaming roof-gaps of the house suddenly vomited forth a wonderous swarm of heteromerous living things--swallows, sparrows, martins, owls, bats, insects in visible multitudes, to hang for many minutes a noisy, gyring, spreading cloud over the black gables and chimneys.