† vomic, a. Obs. rare.
Also 6 vomike, 8 -ick.
[ad. mod.L. vomicus in nux vomica.]
vomic nut, = nux vomica.
The sense of ‘purulent, ulcerous’ given in later Dictionaries (from c 1884) appears to have been evolved from vomica 2.
| 1563 Turner Herbal iii. 49 First I wil rehearse what he writeth of the vomike nut. 1751 J. Hill Mat. Med. 505 Vomick nut is the nucleus of a fruit of an East-Indian tree. 1794 Woodville Med. Bot. Suppl. 29 Strychnos Nux vomica. Vomic nut, or Poison-nut. |