a. Obs. rare. Also 6 vomike, 8 -ick. [ad. mod.L. vomicus in nux vomica.] Vomic nut, = NUX VOMICA.

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  The sense of ‘purulent, ulcerous’ given in later Dictionaries (from c. 1884) appears to have been evolved from VOMICA 2.

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1568.  Turner, Herbal, III. 49. First I wil rehearse what he writeth of the vomike nut.

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1751.  J. Hill, Mat. Med., 505. Vomick nut is the nucleus of a fruit of an East-Indian tree.

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1794.  Woodville, Med. Bot., Suppl. 29. Strychnos Nux vomica. Vomic nut, or Poison-nut.

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