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vomit | bile |

As a noun vomit

is vomit.

As an adverb bile is

even.

vomit

English

(wikipedia vomit)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To regurgitate the contents of a stomach; puke.
  • * Bible, Jonah ii. 10
    • The fish vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
  • To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
  • * '>citation
    • After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.
  • * Milton
    • Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke.
  • * Charlotte Brontë
    • a column of smoke, such as might be vomited by a park of artillery

    Derived terms

    * vomitable

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (-)
  • The regurgitated former contents of a stomach.
  • The act of regurgitating.
  • (obsolete) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He gives your Hollander a vomit .

    Synonyms

    * See also .

    See also

    * emetic ----

    bile

    English

    (wikipedia bile)

    Etymology 1

    Mid 16th century, via (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (biochemistry) A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
  • bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
  • Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1890, author=Walter Scott, title=The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1616, author=Alexander Roberts, title=A Treatise of Witchcraft, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He spake out of the Pythonesse'', ''Act. 16. 17.'' brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed ''Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were destroyed, and perished: and ouerspread the body of that holy Saint their father with botches[t] and biles from the sole of his foot to the crowne of his head. }}
    Synonyms
    * gall
    Derived terms
    * bile duct * biliary * biliary tract * bilirubin * bilious * atrabilious * black bile * yellow bile

    Etymology 2

    Akin to (etyl) buil and (etyl) Beule.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).
    • (Webster 1913) ----