▪ I. † vome, n. Obs. rare.
Also voom, woom.
[f. next.]
Vomit.
| 1382 Wyclif Isaiah xxviii. 8 Alle forsothe boordis ben fulfild with the vome and filthis, so that ther were no more place. 1382 ― 2 Pet. ii. 22 An hound turned aȝen to his woom [v.r. vome, voom]. |
▪ II. † vome, v. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. vomĕre: see vomit v.]
trans. and absol. To vomit. Also fig.
| 1382 Wyclif Lev. xviii. 25 Whos hidows synnes Y shal visite, that it caste [early MSS. vome] out his dwellers. ― Jer. xxv. 27 Drinketh, and beth drunken, and vometh, and falleth. 1407 Exam. W. Thorpe in MS. Rawl. C. 208 lf. 24 He & hise felowis mowen sore drede,..last þei ben sodeynli vomed out of þe noumbre of goddis chosen peple. 1549 Compl. Scotl. vi. 67, I sau brume, that prouokis ane person to vome ald feume. |
Hence † ˈvoming vbl. n. and ppl. a. Obs.
| 1382 Wyclif Isa. xix. 14 To erren thei maden Egipt..as erreth a drunke man and a vomende. ― Jer. xlviii. 26 He shal hurtle the hond of Moab in his vomyng. ― 2 Pet. ii. 22 A sowe waschun [returned] in the walewinge [v.r. vomyng]. |
▪ III. vome
southern ME. var. foam n. and v.