(verb) : vŏmo, ŭi, ĭtum, 3, and
* A. [Sanscr. vām-ami, vomit; Gr. ἐμέω; root ϝεμ].
* Neutr., to puke, spew, throw up, vomit (a common method among the Romans of renewing the appetite).
* Lit.: cum vomere post cenam te velle dixisses,Cic. Dejot. 7, 21; id. Phil. 2, 25, 63; Cels. 1, 3; Suet. Vit. 13; id. Claud. 21: in mensam,Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23.—With a homogeneous object: vomitum,Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 27.—Impers. pass.: ab horā tertiā bibebatur, ludebatur, vomebatur,Cic. Phil. 2, 41, 104.
* Act., to throw up or discharge by vomiting; to vomit up or forth (cf.: eructo, nauseo).
* Lit.: sanguinem,Plin. 26, 13, 84, § 136: paene intestina sua,Petr. 66.
* Transf., in gen., to vomit forth, i. e. to throw or pour out in abundance; to emit, discharge (poet.): (Charybdis) vomit fluctus totidem totidemque resorbet,Ov. H. 12, 125: undam,Verg. G. 2, 462: fumum,id. A. 5, 682: geminas flammas,id. ib. 8, 681: mel (apes),Petr. 56: vitam,to breathe out,Lucr. 6, 828; so, animam,Verg. A. 9, 349: argentum,to give up,Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 10: armataeque vomunt stridentia tela fenestrae,Stat. Th. 10, 536: pinguem nebulam vomuere lucernae,Pers. 5, 181.