vomitory

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: vom=i=to=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

vomitory, a. [L. vomitorious.].

 Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.  [1913 Webster]

vomitory, n. 

•  An emetic; a vomit.  Harvey.  [1913 Webster]
•  A principal door of a large ancient building, as of an amphitheater.  [1913 Webster]

  "Sixty-four vomitories . . . poured forth the immense multitude."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

vomitory, adj. & n.
--adj. emetic.
--n. (pl. -ies) Rom. Antiq. each of a series of passages for entrance and exit in an amphitheatre or theatre.

Etymology

L vomitorius (adj.), -um (n.) (as VOMIT)

THESAURUS

vomitory

avenue, blowhole, channel, chute, debouch, door, egress, ejaculative, ejective, emetic, emunctory, eructative, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, expulsive, extrusive, flatulent, floodgate, flume, loophole, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, pore, port, sally port, sluice, spiracle, spout, tap, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitive, way out, weir

ROGET THESAURUS

vomitory

Opening

N opening, hole, foramen, puncture, perforation, fontanel, transforation, pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole, eye of a needle, eyelet, slot, opening, aperture, apertness, hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence, patefaction, pandiculation, chasm, embrasure, window, casement, abatjour, light, sky light, fan light, lattice, bay window, bow window, oriel, dormer, lantern, outlet, inlet, vent, vomitory, embouchure, orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle, placket, portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door, arcade, cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway, lich gate, way, path, thoroughfare, channel, passage, passageway, tube, pipe, water pipe, air pipe, vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula, adjutage, ajutage, ostium, smokestack, chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main, mine, pit, adit, shaft, gallery, alley, aisle, glade, vista, bore, caliber, pore, blind orifice, fulgurite, thundertube, porousness, porosity, sieve, cullender, colander, cribble, riddle, screen, honeycomb, apertion, perforation, piercing, terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration, key, opener, master key, password, combination, passe- partout, open, perforated, perforate, wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped, oscitant, gaping, yawning, patent, tubular, cannular, fistulous, pervious, permeable, foraminous, vesicular, vasicular, porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled, tubulous, tubulated, piped, tubate, opening, aperient, Int, open sesame!.

Egress

N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.