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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.

The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.

The act or power of vomiting. Grew.

Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.

The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit.

Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.

An ineffectual attempt to vomit.

A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.

To vomit. [Obs.]

The act of vomiting. [Obs.] Swift.

Producing vomiting or expectoration. -- n.

Tending to check vomiting. -- n.

To vomit. [Obs.]

To soil or daub with spew; to vomit on.

A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.

To vomit. [Slang] Smollett.

-- To cast up. (a) To throw up; to raise. (b) To compute; to reckon, as the cost. (c) To vomit. (d) To twit with; to throw in one's teeth.

A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. "Dire chimeras and enchanted isles." Milton.

c poison may have been carried. It is characterized by diarrhea, rice- water evacuations, vomiting, cramps, pinched expression, and lividity, rapidly passing into a state of collapse, followed by death, or by a stage of reaction of fever. -- Cholera bacillus. See Comma bacillus. -- Cholera infantum, a dangerous summe…

To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place. This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone. Hakluyt. They loudly laughed To see his heavi…