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▪ I. ˈvomiting, vbl. n.
[f. vomit v. + -ing1.]
1. The act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth; an instance of this.
1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xvii. xxi. O ij b/1 This floure balaustia..hath also vertue to staunche spewyng & vomytynge. 1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions i. v. 73 When they are sicke, they heale them selues, eyther with fasting or vomiting. a1568in Bannatyne MS. (Hunt. Cl.) 196 Oppin thy crop at morrowing, Cast out flowme, mak vomating. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 781 Inordinate passion of vomiting..is nothing different from a keckish stomacke and a desire to cast. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. v. xiv. 249 The Water..has upon the gazer the operation of a rapid stream, and by making him giddy, hastens and facilitates his Vomiting. 1706Stanhope Paraphr. III. 323 Such a nauseating and indigestion that great Numbers..dyed..by violent Vomitings. 1742in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. (1914) XIV. 137 A Sudden Vomiting seiz'd her, which deprived her of y⊇ Benefit of her Viaticum. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 599 A mild vegetable aliment, where aliment can be taken without inducing sickness, or exciting vomiting. 1885Pater Marius i. vii, A painful vomiting, which seemed to shake his body asunder.
b. Const. of (the matter ejected).
1601Holland Pliny II. Table, s.v., Vomiting of bloud out of the stomacke, how to bee cured. 1622Venner Via Recta viii. (ed. 2) 194 It..induceth vomitings of bloud. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Colic, A Vomiting of bilious green Liquor. 1765Wesley Jrnl. 27 May (1827) III. 215 A young man, brought near death by a vomiting of blood. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) II. 183 Gangrene..accompanied with a vomiting of matter resembling coffee-grounds. 1859Mayne Expos. Lex. 1337/2 Vomiting of Blood,..common term for the disease Hæmatemesis.
c. With defining terms. (See quots.)
1794B. Rush Acc. Yellow Fever (ed. 2) 56 Several persons died without a black vomiting of any kind. 1836Macgillivray Trav. Humboldt xxi. 300 The yellow fever or black vomiting is prevalent. a1883Fagge Princ. & Pract. Med. (1886) II. 130 ‘Irritability of the stomach,’ or ‘hysterical vomiting.’ 1895Funk's Stand. Dict., Morning vomiting, the vomiting of drunkards, due to alcoholism; also, the vomiting of pregnant women.
2. concr. Matter which is vomited; = vomit n. 2.
1727Swift Poisoning E. Curll Wks. 1755 III. i. 149 The contents of his vomiting being as green as grass. 1794B. Rush Acc. Yellow Fever (ed. 2) 56 The matter which constitutes the fatal black vomiting.
3. techn. (See quot. and vomiting ppl. a.)
1881Spons' Encycl. Industr. Arts iv. 1486 The steam from the pipe A heats the liquor..and forcing it up the wide pipe C, causes it to strike against the dome or bonnet D... This is technically called ‘vomiting’.
4. attrib., chiefly in the sense ‘causing vomiting, emetic’, as vomiting drink, vomiting julep, vomiting pap, vomiting tartar, etc.; † vomiting nut = nux vomica 1.
(a)1575Banister Chyrurg. 106 b, Nux vomica, the vomiting nutte. 1587Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1860) 155, iij vomitinge nottes of puther. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. xviii. 49 They are no bigger than a large vomiting Nut. 1681Grew Musæum ii. i. iv. 210 The true Methel; or the Vomiting-Nut commonly so call'd. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 137 The Vomiting Nuts are round, flat Nuts, of divers Colours. 1723Pres. St. Russia II. 53 They..pour strong Vinegar upon vomiting Nuts.
(b)1647Hexham i, A vomiting drinke or potion, een dranck die over-geven doet. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. v. viii. 189 That violent Vomiting Medicine..called..Mercurius Vitæ. 1694W. Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 363/2 A Vomiting Pappe. Ibid. 527/2 Tartarum Emeticum, Emetick, or Vomiting Tartar. 1737Med. Ess. & Observ. IV. 33 An Essay towards ascertaining the Doses of vomiting and purging Medicines. 1789W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 191 A few spoonfuls of the vomiting julep, will generally answer this purpose.
(c)1651Wittie tr. Primrose's Pop. Err. 44 He that first found out the vomiting vertue of antimony. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 650 Again vomiting..is suggestive..of a tumour in the region of the vomiting centre.
▪ II. ˈvomiting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That vomits or causes to vomit.
vomiting-boiler: (see quot. 1844).
1844G. Dodd Textile Manuf. ii. 76 A ‘vomiting-boiler’, that is, a boiler so constructed that the water is made to vomit upwards from a pipe, and then to fall down on the cloth in the boiler. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. III. 14/2 Fixed kiers with a vomiting-pipe. 1880J. Dunbar Pract. Paperm. (1881) 19 [Esparto grass] boiled for 10 hours in stationary vomiting boilers with 10 lb. steam pressure. 1904R. J. Farrer Gard. Asia 248 From the wide plain leapt a vomiting cone of fire. |