Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VO-LUP'TU-OUS-NESS, n.

Luxuriousness; addictedness to pleasure or sensual gratification. Where no voluptuousness, yet all delight Donne.

VOL-U-TA'TION, n. [L. volatlano, from voluto, from volvo, Eng. to wallow.]

A wallowing; a rolling of the body on the earth. [See Wallow.]

VO-LUTION, n.

A spiral turn.

VOLU-TITE, n.

A petrified shell of the genus Voluta. Jameson.

VOLVIC, a.

Denoting a species of stone or lava.

VOM'IC, a.

The vomic nut, nux vomica is the seed of the Strychnos flux vornice, a native of the East Indies. It is a very valuable medicine. Cyc.

VOMIC-A, n. [L.]

An abscess in the lungs.

VOMIC-NUT, n. [L. comice, emetic, and NUS, a nut.]

The seed of the Strychnos Aux vomica, a medium sized tree growing in varions parts of India. The fruit is of the size of a small orange, and of the same color, covered with a tough rind, and filled with a pulp, in which the seeds are imbedded. Almost all parts of this tree are medicinal, but more especially the seeds. They are not emetic however, as their name implies. The snake-wood does not belong to this tree, as some have asserted, but to Strychnos colubrina, another species of the same genus.

VOMIT, n.

1. The matter ejected front the stomach. Sandys.
2. That which excites the stomach to discharge its contents; an emetic. Black vomit, the dark colored matter ejected from the stomach in the last stage of the yellow fever or other malignant disease.

VOMIT, v.t. [L. tome; Fr. comic; It. vondre; Sans. vamathu. Probably the Gr. {foreign} is the same word, with the loss of its first letter.]

To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth. Some animals vomit with ease, as cats and dags; but horses do not vomit. Cyc.

VOMIT, v.t.

1. To throw up or eject from the stomach; to discharge from the stomach through the mouth. It is followed often by up or out, but without necessity and to the injury of the language. In the yellow fever, the patients often vomit dark colored matter like coffee grounds. The fish vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. Jonah ii.
2. To eject with violence from any hollow place. Volcanoes vomit flames, ashes, stones and liquid lava.

VOM'IT-ED, pp.

Ejected from the stomach through the mouth, or from any deep place through an opening.

VOM'IT-ING, n.

1. The act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth. Vomiting is essentially an inverted action of the stomach and esophagus. Cyc.
2. The act of throwing out substances with violence from a deep hollow, as a volcano, &c.

VOM'IT-ING, ppr.

Discharging from the stomach through the mouth, or ejecting from any deep place.

VO-MITION, n.

The act or power of vomiting. Grew.

VOMIT-IVE, a.

[Fr. vomitifl Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic. Brown.

VOMIT-O-RY, a. [L. vomitorins.]

. Procuring vomiting; causing to eject front the stomach; emetic. Brown,

VOMIT-O-RY, n.

1. An emetic. Harvey.
2. A door. Gibbon.

VO-RACIOUS, a. [Fr. and It. vorace; L. vorax, front voto, to devour; Heb. and Ch. {foreign}, to clear away, to consume; Gr. {foreign}, food. Class Br, No, 6.]

1. Greedy for eating; ravenous; very hungry; as, a voracious man or appetite.
2. Rapacious; eager to devour; as, voracious animals.
3. Ready to swallow up; as, a voracious gulf or whirlpool.

VO-RA'CIOUS-LY, adv.

With greedy appetite; ravenously.

VO-RACIOUS-NESS, n.

Greediness of appetite; ravenousness; eagerness to devour; rapaciousness.

VO-RACI-TY, n.

Greediness of appetite; voraciousness. Creatures by their voracity pernicious, have commonly fewer young. Derham.

VO-RAG'IN-OUS, a. [L. voraginosue,vorago.]

Full of gulfs. Scott.

VORTEX, n. plur.

1. Vortices or Vortexes, [L. from verto, Ant. vorto, to turn.]
2. A whirlpool; a whirling or circular motion of water, forming a kind of cavity in the center of the circle, end in some instances, drawing in water or absorbing other things.
3. A whirling of the air; whirlwind. Cyc.
4. In the Cartesian system, the circular motion originally impressed on the particles of matter, carrying them around their own axes, and around a common center. By mean, of these vortices, Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe.

VORTIC-AL, n.

Whirling; turning; as, a vortical motion. Newton. Bentley.