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The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.

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  • STOMACHAL
    1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric. 2. Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.
  • STOMACHY
    Obstinate; sullen; haughty. A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety. R. L. Stevenson.
  • MOUTHFUL
    1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time. 2. Hence, a small quantity.
  • THROUGH
    thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece
  • STOMACHER
    1. One who stomachs.
  • STOMACHFUL
    Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse. -- Stom"ach*ful*ly, adv. -- Stom"ach*ful*ness, n.
  • STOMACHING
    Resentment.
  • STOMACHOUS
    Stout; sullen; obstinate. With stern looks and stomachous disdain. Spenser.
  • MOUTHED
    1. Furnished with a mouth. 2. Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide- mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.
  • STOMACHIC
    A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.
  • MOUTH
    An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as: The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc. The opening or entrance of any
  • MATTERLESS
    1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
  • SPASMODIC
    Of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm; occuring in, or characterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic asthma. 2. Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry. Spasmodic croup , an affection of childhood
  • MATTER-OF-FACT
    Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
  • THROUGHLY
    Thoroughly. Bacon. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Ps. li. 2. To dare in fields is valor; but how few Dare to be throughly valiant to be true Dryden.
  • MATTERY
    1. Generating or containing pus; purulent. 2. Full of substance or matter; important. B. Jonson.
  • MOUTHPIECE
    1. The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe. 2. An appendage to an inlet or outlet opening of a pipe or vessel, to direct or facilitate the inflow or
  • MOUTH-FOOTED
    Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws.
  • EJECTION
    The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions. 3. The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment. (more info) 1. The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. "Vast
  • MOUTH-MADE
    Spoken without sincerity; not heartfelt. "Mouth-made vows." Shak.
  • DEJECTION
    1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
  • LOUD-MOUTHED
    Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
  • REDMOUTH
    Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
  • SPLAYMOUTH
    A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
  • HIGH-STOMACHED
    Having a lofty spirit; haughty. Shak.
  • FLAP-MOUTHED
    Having broad, hangling lips. Shak.
  • HOT-MOUTHED
    Headstrong. That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb. Dryden.
  • FOUL-MOUTHED
    Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause. Addison.
  • FROGMOUTH
    One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus ; -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.
  • WHERETHROUGH
    Through which. "Wherethrough that I may know." Chaucer. Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee. Shak.
  • FLUTEMOUTH
    A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.
  • OPEN-MOUTHED
    Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
  • SALTMOUTH
    A wide-mouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts.

 

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