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Black vomit   Listen
noun
Black vomit  n.  (Med.) A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Black vomit" Quotes from Famous Books



... grief have overflown. Discoloured and contorted, what a ghastly picture the dead man's face presents! Glassy, and with vacant glare, those eyes, strange in death, seem wildly staring upward from earth. How unnatural those sunken cheeks—those lips wet with the excrement of black vomit—that throat reddened with the pestilential poison! "Call a warden, Daddy!" says Harry; "he has died of black vomit, I think." And he lays the dead body square upon the cot, turns the sheets from off the shoulders, unbuttons the collar of its shirt. "How changed! I never would have known ...
— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams



Words linked to "Black vomit" :   yellow jack, infectious disease, yellow fever



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