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To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting. [Written also reach.] Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching! (Here he grew inarticulate with retching.) Byron.

A variety of dolomite.

-- Rice-water discharge (Med.), a liquid, resembling rice water in appearance, which is vomited, and discharged from the bowels, in cholera. -- Rice weevil (Zoöl.), a small beetle (Calandra, or Sitophilus, oryzæ) which destroys rice, wheat, and Indian corn by eating out the interior; -- called also black weevil.…

One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome. Segment gear, a piece for receiving or communicating reciprocating motion from or to a cogwheel, consisting of a sector of a circular gear, or ring, having cogs on the periphery, or face. -- Segment of a…

vent the saw from sticking. -- To set aside. (a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to neglect; to reject; to annul. Setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that. Tillotson.

y be used elliptically; thus, with an adverb or other word expressive of motion go may be omitted. "He to England shall along with you." Shak.

Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.

To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson. They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters. Bp. Burnet.

To omit; to loose by negligence. And slip no advantage That my secure you. B. Jonson.

To smother. See Smoor. [Obs.] Some dying vomit blood, and some were smored. Du Bartas.

See Somite.

To eject from the stomach; to vomit.

the candidates regularly nominated by one party, other names being substituted for those omitted. [U.S.]

terisk [thus, *]; -- used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc.

The sternum of an arthropod somite.

The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.

To omit; to forbear.

fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.

nfluence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.

ure silica. It is highly valued in the East Indies as a medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and various other diseases.