Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VOM'IT, 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.