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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VOM'IT, v.i. [L. vomo. probably the Gr. is the same word, with the loss of its first letter.]
To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth. Some persons vomit with ease, as do cats and dogs. But horses do not vomit.
VOM'IT, v.t.
1. To throw up or eject from the stomach; to discharge from the stomach through the mouth. It is followed often by up or out, but without necessity and to the injury of the language. In the yellow fever, the patients often vomit dark colored matter, like coffee grounds.
The fish vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. JoNahum 2.
2. To eject with violence from any hollow place. Volcanoes vomit flames, ashes, stones and liquid lava.
VOM'IT, n.
1. The matter ejected from the stomach.
2. That which excites the stomach to discharge its contents; an emetic.
Black vomit, the dark colored matter ejected from the stomach in the last stage of the yellow fever or other malignant disease; hence, the yellow fever, vulgarly so called.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the matter ejected in vomiting [syn: vomit, vomitus, puke, barf]
2: a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting [syn: emetic, vomit, vomitive, nauseant]
3: the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth [syn: vomit, vomiting, emesis, regurgitation, disgorgement, puking] v
1: 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, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French vomite, from Latin vomitus, from vomere to vomit; akin to Old Norse v?ma seasickness, Greek emein to vomit Date: 14th century 1. an act or instance of disgorging the contents of the stomach through the mouth; also the disgorged matter 2. emetic II. verb Date: 15th century intransitive verb 1. to disgorge the stomach contents 2. to spew forth ; belch, gush transitive verb 1. to disgorge (the contents of the stomach) through the mouth 2. to eject violently or abundantly ; spew 3. to cause to vomit • vomiter noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.tr. (vomited, vomiting) 1 (also absol.) eject (matter) from the stomach through the mouth. 2 (of a volcano, chimney, etc.) eject violently, belch forth. --n. 1 matter vomited from the stomach. 2 archaic an emetic. Derivatives: vomiter n. Etymology: ME ult. f. L vomere vomit- or frequent. L vomitare

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vomit Vom"it, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vomited; p. pr. & vb. n. Vomiting.] [Cf. L. vomere, vomitum, and v. freq. vomitare. See Vomit, n.] To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vomit Vom"it, v. t. 1. 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. --Jonah ii. 10. 2. 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. --Milton.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vomit Vom"it, n. [L. vomitus, from vomere, vomitum, to vomit; akin to Gr. ?, Skr. vam, Lith. vemiti. Cf. Emetic, Vomito.] 1. Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth. Like vomit from his yawning entrails poured. --Sandys. 2. (Med.) That which excites vomiting; an emetic. He gives your Hollander a vomit. --Shak. Black vomit. (Med.) See in the Vocabulary. Vomit nut, nux vomica.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(vomits, vomiting, vomited) 1. If you vomit, food and drink comes back up from your stomach and out through your mouth. Any product made from cow's milk made him vomit... She began to vomit blood a few days before she died... He vomited up all he had just eaten. VERB: V, V n, V n with up • vomiting Nausea, diarrhoea, and vomiting may accompany migraine. N-UNCOUNT 2. Vomit is partly digested food and drink that has come back up from someone's stomach and out through their mouth. = sick

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. Puke, spew, throw up. II. v. a. 1. Disgorge, throw up (from the stomach), puke up, cast up. 2. Eject, emit, throw forth, belch forth. III. n. Emetic, puke, vomitory.

Moby Thesaurus

barf, be nauseated, be seasick, be sick, belch, blow open, blow out, break out, bring up, burst forth, burst out, cascade, cast, cat, choke on, chuck up, discharge, disgorge, disgorgement, drain, drain out, egest, egesta, egestion, eject, emetic, empty, eruct, erupt, exhaust, expel, feed the fish, feel disgust, find vent, flow, flow out, gag, gagging, gush, gush out, heave, heave the gorge, heaves, heaving, hurl forth, jet, keck, nausea, nauseant, outflow, outpour, play, pour, pour out, puke, regurgitate, regurgitation, reject, retch, run out, shoot, sick up, sicken at, sluice out, spew, spew out, spit, spout, spout out, spray, spritz, spurt, spurtle, spy, squirt, surge, throw up, upchuck, vomit forth, vomit out, vomiting, vomition, vomitive, well, well out