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complained she was not well ; in a Quarter of an Hour
more she vomited. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist, (1776) VII.
294 The belly was always greatly swollen, when the animal
bewail to vomit. 1804 Adernethy Surg. Obs. 231 She complained
.. of extreme sickness, which produced frequent
efforts to vomit. 1871 Darwin Emotions xi. 259 The monkeys
in the Zoological Gardens often vomit whilst in i>erfect
health.
2. trans. To bring up and discharge (swallowed
food or drink) through the mouth ; to cast out (a
matter or substance) in this way ; = Spew v. 2.
AXsdJig.
igfio Bible (Geneva) Prov. xxiii. 8 Thou shalt vomit thy
morsels that thou has eaten. 1565 Cooper Thesaurus s.v.
yomitttSy Alatter of diuers colours vomited. 1588 Shaks.
Titus A. III. i. 232 My bowels cannot hide her woes, But
like a drunkard must I vomit them. 161 1 — Cymb. i. vi. 45
Slutiery.. Should make desire vomit emptinesse. Not so
allur'd to feed. 1804 Med. Jml. XII. 149 His stomach
became uneasy, and he vomited a small portion of the last
dose. 1845 Ano't/. A/etrod.'Vll. 552/1 The matters vomited
are merely the contents of the stomach, half digested. x8o8
J. Hutchinson in Arch. Sur^. IX. log A lady vomited the
contents of a very large swelling which had formed.
b. Freq. with advs., z.%forthy out^ up,
1541 Elvot Image Gov. 23 Yf by chance he espied any of
them, he was therwith so greued, that he immediately wolde
vomite vp colar. 1565 Cooper Tfusaurus, Reijcere sanguifum,
to vomite out bloudde. a 1591 H. Smith V^ks.
(1866) II. 59 Then might the poor be fed with that which
be oftentimes., loathsomely vomits forth. 1609 Bible
(Douay) Jonah ii. 11 The Lord spoke to the fish ; and it
vomited out Jonas upon the dry land. 1663 Covii.Eri Cutter
Coleman St. n. viii, I ha' vomited out. .all my entrails. 1693
EvBLVN De la Quint. Compl. Card. II. Treat. Orange
Trees 43 The Juggler, who. .Vomits up so many several
sorts of Water, all differing in Colour, Taste, and Smell.
1756 Mrs. Caldebwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitl. 01 ) 174
You must know it is a mortall sin to vomit up this morsell.
x8xfr-ao E. Thompson Cullen^s NosoL Method, (ed. 3) 247
IXsire of food in great quantity, which is immediately
vomited up. 1845 Birch in Classical Museum III. 420 The
Jason vomited up by the serpent of the Fleece. 1904
Spescer & GiLt.EN North. Tribes Cent Austral, xiv. 472
The natives say that once some men.. became so ill that
they vomited forth their livers.
3. fig. a. To eject, reject, cast out or up, esp.
1594 Shaks. Rich, til, v. iii. 318 A scum of Brittaines, .
Whom their o're^loyed Country vomits forth To desperate
Aduentures. x8x9 C'tess Spencer in Lady Lyttelton's
Corr. viii. (1712) 213 If I find any Englishwoman going
home by a diligence,.. Mrs. Bishop may be vomitied out at
the Black Bear, Piccadilly. i8ao ibid. 222 All such as you
see vomited o'lt of the steam-vessel upon Ramsgateor Margate
piers. 18^ S. E. Brvdces Autobiog. I, 108 An inciedible
quantity of nonsense is vomited from the press.
x8^ Dickens Dav. Copp. xvii, There was Uriah's blue bag
lymg down and vomiting papers.
c. To eject or cast out by volcanic action;
« Spew v, 4 c. Also with advs., ^'hforth, up.
X614 Earl .Stirlikg Doomsday 11. Iviii, The earth. .Doth
vomit mountaines, and doth swallow Townes. 1687 A.Lovrll
tr. ThevenoCs Trav. 1. 107 A Utile Rockie Island, which..
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vomited up incredible Flames, l-jfi^ond. Gaz. No. 5128/8
Mount Vesuvius had vomited violent Streams of Sulpliur.
1770 W. HoDSON Ded. Temi. Solomon 4 jlitna vomits fortll
her livid Fires. 1794 R. J. Sui-iVAN View Nat. I. 76 _A
mouth of fire is opened in a low place . . : that mouth vomits
a quantity of burning matters. 1837 Cari-vle Fr, Rev,\\\.
II!. iv, Mentz is changing into an explosive crater, vomiting
fire, bevomited with fire !
1866 Herschel Font. Led, Set.
(1867) 33 The opening of a chasm vomiting fire and red.hot
stones and ashes. 1878 Huxley Physiogr. 218 The fused
rocks, .which are vomited forth by volcanoes.
5. absol. Of emetics : To cause vomiting.
1651 French Distill, v. 172 You may have a Liquor in the
morning which will vomit. l68l tr. Belongs Myst. Fhysick
Introd. 50 Which Tincture does variously operate, some- i
times purging, sometimes (though rarely) vomiting. 1737 I
Bracken Farriery Iiiipr. (1756) I- 284 The Mineral Bezoar j
will sometimes vomit. 1761 Centl. Mag. 274 It (hemlock)
seldom purges, very rarely vomits. 1822-7 Goop Study
Med. (1829) 1 1. 57 Emetic tartar, when introduced into the
jugular vein, will vomit in one or two minutes. 1843 R. J.
Graves Syst. Clin. Med. iv. 50 When chemistry reveals why
Tartar Emetic vomits.
b. trans. To cause (a person) to vomit.
1662 R. Mathew U»l. Alcli. 3 Yet will it vomit some,
purge others, and make others sweat out of measure. 1753
N.ToBBTANoCao^r. Sore Throat 34 We gave some Ipecacuanha,
which vomited our Patient, and made her discharge
several Membranes and Fragments of Eschars. 1756 C.
Lucas Ess. Waters II. 141 Some having taken this water
in a mistake,.. it has vomitted and purged them. 1799
Underwood Dis. Childhood (ed. 4) I. 21 It is true, vinum
antimoniale docs not always vomit cliildren. 1843 R. J.
Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xii. 131 Almost every dose vomited
him.
0. Said of the person administering the emetic
or in passive of the patient.
1684 tr. BoHel's Merc. Comfit, viii. 298 We presently proceeded
to vomit him : for he was easy to vomit. 1727 Swift
Further Ace. E. Cur/lWVs. 1753 III. I. 158, I have taken
involuntary purges, I have been vomited. 1756 Med. Ots.
V /«^. (1776) I. xxi. 271, I proposed. .to relieve her, by
vomiting her in the most gentle manner. 1790 J. C. Smyth
in Med. Commuii. II. 478 He was vomited with tartar
emetic. 1810 Bvron Let. to Hodgson 3 Oct., The English
Consul.. forced a physician upon me, arid in three days
vomited and glystered me to the last gasp. 1841 Catlin N.
Amer. Ind. Iviii. (1844) II. 248 He is vomiting and purging
dyed . . by violent Vomitings. 17^2 in Cath. Rec. Soc. Piibl.
(1914) XIV. 137 A Sudden Vomiting seiz'd her, which deprived
her of ye Benefit of her Viaticum. 1813 J. Thomson
Led. Inflam. 599 A mild vegetable aliment, where aliment
can be taken without inducing sickness, or exciting vomiting.
1885 Pater Marius L vii, A painful vomiting, which
seemed to shake bis body asunder.
VOMITIVE.
b. Const, o^ (the matter ejected).
l6ox Holland Pliny 1 1. Table, s.v., Vomiting of bloud out
of the stomacke, how to bee cured. 1622 Ven ner Via Recta
viii. (ed. 2) 194 lt..induceth vomitings of bloud. 1728
Chambers Cycl. s.v. Colic, A Vomiting of bilious green
Liquor. 176SWESLEY yrnl. 27 May (1827) III. 215 Ayoung
man, brought near death by a vomiting of blood. 1822-7
Good Study Med. (1829) II. 183 Gangrene. .accompanied
with a vomiting of matter resembling coffee-grounds. 1859
Mayne Ex/ios. Lex. 1337/2 Vomiting 0/ Blood,.. common
term for the disease Hxmatemesis.
o. With defining terms. (See quots.)
1794 B. Rush Acc. Yello^u Fever (ed. 2) 56 Several persons
died without a black vomiting of any kind. 1836 Mac-
CILLIVRAY Trav. Humboldt xxi. 300 The yellow fever or
black vomiting is prevalent, a 1883 Facce Priuc. S, Pract.
Med. (1886) II. 130 ' Irritability of the stomach,' or
' hysterical vomiting.' 189S Funk's Stand. Diet., Morning
7'Omiting, the vomiting of drunkards, due to alcoholism
also, the vomiting of pregnant women.
2. colter. Matter which is vomited; = Vomit sb. 2.
1727 Sv^lFT Poisoninf E. Curll Wks. 1755 III. 1. 149 The
contents of his vomiting being as green as gra.ss. 1794 B.
Rush Acc. Yellow Fever (ed. 2) 56 The matter which constitutes
the fatal black vomiting.
3. techn. (See quot. and VomtWQfpl. a.)
1881 Spons' Encycl. Industr. A rts iv. i486 The steam from
the pipe .\ heats the liquor, .and forcing it up the wide pipe
C, causes it to strike against the dome or bonnet D...This
is technically called 'vomiting'.
4. attrib., chiefly in the sense ' causing vomiting,
emetic ', as vomiting drink, julep, pap, tartar, etc.
•|- vomiting nvit, = Nux vomica i.
(«) >S7S Banister Chyrurg. 106 b, Nux vomica, the
vomiting nutte. 1587 Wills fi Inv. N. C. (Surtees i860) 155,
iij vomitinge nottes of puther. 1668 Culpepper & Cole
Barthol. Anat. I. xviii. 49 They are no bigger than a large
vomiting Nut. j68i Grew Musxum 11. I. iv. 210 The true
Methel; or the Vomiting-Nut commonly so call'd. 171a
tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 137 The Vomiting Nuts are
round, flat Nuts, of divers Colours. X723 Pres. St. Russia
II. 53 'I'hey. .pour strong Vinegar upon vomiting Nuts.
(i) 1647 Hexham I, A vomiting drinke or potion, een
dranck die cver-geven doet. i6«3 Boyle Use/. Exp. Nat.
Philos. II. V. viii. 189 That violent Vomiting Medicine.,
called. . Mercurius Vit.x. 1694 W. Salmon Bate's Dispens.
(1713) 363 2 A Vomiting Pappe. Ibid. 527/2 Tartarum
with abhorrence or loathing.
his patients with herbs.
Emeticum, Emetick, or Vomiting Tartar. 1737 Med. Ess.
X56a WinJet Wks. (S.T.S.) II. ^4 That thai mot..womet J!g. 1682 Drvoes & Lee Dk. Guise iil. ii, I took thee for ff Observ. IV. 33 An Essay towards ascertaining the Doses
out agane fra the ground thai bittir and tribulous scis of my Souls Physician, And dost thou vomit me with this of vomiting and purging Medicines. 1789 W. Buchan Dom.
errouris. 1581 N. T. (Rhem.) Rev. iii. 16 Because thou art loath'd Piece? t^ Axti-yacoiin No. 10 We'll vomit his Med. (1790) 191 A few spoonfuls of the vomiting julep, will
..neither cold nor bote, I wil begin to vomite thee out of purse. And make it the guineas disgorge.
generally answer this purpose.
my mouth. x6oa Marstom Antonio''s Rev. v. iii, They faine 6. «»/r. To issue, or come out, with force or vio- (d 1S51 Wittie tr. Primrose's Pop. Err. 44 He that first
found out the vomiting vertue of antimony. 1899 AllbutVs
would cast And vomit him from off their governement. 1636
lence ; to rush out, to spout up.
Syst.
Sir R. Baker Cato Variegatus 94 Praise not too much
Med. VIL 650 Again vomiting.. is suggestive.. of a
; lest
thou be forc'd in th' end To cate thy words, and vomit up 1632 LiTHCOw Trav. IX. 392 It impeluou.sly vomiteth out, tumour in the region of the vomiting centre.
thy friend, a 1704 T. Brown Dial, Dead, Belgic Hero in an outragious Torrent. 1844, 1904 [see Vomiting///, a. ) Vo'miting, ppl- a. [f. as prec. -f -MG 2.] That
wis. 1711 IV. 67 .\ haughty T>-rant..was obliged to vomit Hence Vo-mited///. a.
vomits or causes to vomit.
up numberless Provinces and Towns, which he had dis- 1846 Day tr. Simon's Aiiim.CAem. II. 393 A case in which
Vomitini^.boiler'. (see quot. 1844).
honourably stolen. 1839 T. Mitchell Frogs ofAristoph, urea was detected in the vomited fluid. 1873 Ralfe Fhys.
Introd. p. xcii, A stern admonition, that where such vices Chem. 46 In certain forms of dyspepsia they have been ob-
1844 G. DoDD Textile Manu/. ii. 76 A 'vomiting-boiler ,
that is, a boiler so constructed that the water is made to
arc practised, the very earth shall vomit out its inhabitants. tained from the vomited matters.
vomit upwards from a pipe, and then to fall down on the
b. To give vent to, belch out, or utter (abusive Vomit-, the Stem of Vomit v. used in a few cloth in the boiler. 1879 CasselVs Techn. Educ. III. 14/2
or objectionable language) ; = Spew v. 2 c. combinations, as t vomit-grass, a grass causing Fixed kiers with a vorailing-pipe. 1880 J. Dunbar Tract.
Chiefly with advs. {as/orlJt, out, up) or preps. vomiting in dogs; vomit-nut, = VoMic NUT Pafierm. (1881) 19 [Esparto grass] boiled for 10 hours in
stationary vomiting boilers with 10 lb. steam pressure. 1904
xS9a Bretom Pilgr. Paradise Wks. (Grosart) I. 12/2 Vp (Simmonds Dut. Trade, 1858); vomit-wort R. J. Farrer Card. Asia 248 From the wide plain leapt a
diUstart the heade of Gluttonie, Vomiting out theese wordcs
of villany. x6ix B. JossoM Catiline ly. ii, 1 hope This
U.S., Indian tobacco (Zo*-« to vomit.] The action of vomiting.
ocean.
for you . . so to vomit against your dead Prince.
Vo'miter. [f. Vomit v. + -eb. Cf. L. vomtior.^
1656 ^l-OVKT Glosspgr., K