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  • English Word Vomic nut Definition Same as Nux vomica.
  • English Word Vomica Definition An abscess cavity in the lungs.
  • English Word Vomica Definition An abscess in any other parenchymatous organ.
  • English Word Vomicine Definition See Brucine.
  • English Word Vomit Definition To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.
  • English Word Vomit Definition To throw up; to eject from the stomach through the mouth; to disgorge; to puke; to spew out; -- often followed by up or out.
  • English Word Vomit Definition Hence, to eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit; to throw forth; as, volcanoes vomit flame, stones, etc.
  • English Word Vomit Definition Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.
  • English Word Vomit Definition That which excites vomiting; an emetic.
  • English Word Vomited Definition of Vomit
  • English Word Vomiting Definition of Vomit
  • English Word Vomiting Definition The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.
  • English Word Vomition Definition The act or power of vomiting.
  • English Word Vomitive Definition Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.
  • English Word Vomito Definition The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit.
  • English Word Vomitories Definition of Vomitory
  • English Word Vomitory Definition Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.
  • English Word Vomitory Definition An emetic; a vomit.
  • English Word Vomitory Definition A principal door of a large ancient building, as of an amphitheater.
  • English Word Vomiturition Definition An ineffectual attempt to vomit.
  • English Word Vomiturition Definition The vomiting of but little matter; also, that vomiting which is effected with little effort.
  • English Word Vondsira Definition Same as Vansire.
  • English Word Voodoo Definition See Voodooism.
  • English Word Voodoo Definition One who practices voodooism; a negro sorcerer.
  • English Word Voodoo Definition Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo; as, voodoo incantations.
  • English Word Voodooism Definition A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.
  • English Word Voracious Definition Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool.
  • English Word Voracity Definition The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.
  • English Word Voraginous Definition Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring.
  • English Word Vortex Definition A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.