Vomit: Definition and part of speech

Vomit

n. That which excites vomiting; an emetic.
n. To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.
v. t. To throw up; to eject from the stomach through the mouth; to disgorge; to puke; to spew out; — often followed by up or out.
v. t. Hence, to eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit; to throw forth; as, volcanoes vomit flame, stones, etc.
n. Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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