Word Meanings - EVOMITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of vomiting. Swift.

Related words: (words related to EVOMITION)

• VOMITORY
  Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.
• VOMITO
  The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit.
• SWIFTNESS
  The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
• SWIFTLET
  Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
• SWIFTER
  A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. The forward shroud of a lower mast.
• VOMIT
  To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.
• SWIFTLY
  In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly. Wyclif.
• SWIFTFOOT
  Nimble; fleet. Mir. for Mag.
• SWIFT
  to swapan to sweep, swipu a whip; cf. swifan to move quickly, to 1. Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt. My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak,
• VOMITION
  The act or power of vomiting. Grew.
• VOMITURITION
  An ineffectual attempt to vomit. The vomiting of but little matter; also, that vomiting which is effected with little effort. Dunglison.
• VOMITIVE
  Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.
• VOMITING
  The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.
• EVOMIT
  To vomit.
• EVOMITION
  The act of vomiting. Swift.
• BLACK VOMIT
  A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.