Word Meanings - VOMITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or power of vomiting. Grew.

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• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• VOMITORY
  Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.
• VOMITO
  The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit.
• VOMIT
  To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.
• POWERLESS
  Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n.
• 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.
• POWER
  See FISH
• VOMITIVE
  Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.
• VOMITING
  The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• IMPOWER
  See EMPOWER
• POLICE POWER
  The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers
• DISEMPOWER
  To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.
• EMPOWER
  1. To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize ; as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor. 2. To give
• UNPOWER
  Want of power; weakness. Piers Plowman.
• EVOMIT
  To vomit.
• CONCERT OF THE POWERS
  An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.
• UNPOWERFUL
  Not powerful; weak. Cowley.
• EVOMITION
  The act of vomiting. Swift.
• HORSE POWER
  . 1. The power which a horse exerts.
• OVERPOWER
  To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to vanquish; to subdue; as, the light overpowers the eyes. "And overpower'd that gallant few." Wordsworth. Syn. -- To overbear; overcome; vanquish; defeat; crush; overwhelm; overthrow; rout; conquer;