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throw up:

1. subjĭcio, jēci, jectum, 3: (to t. up from below): to t. up their darts, tragulas s., Caes. B. G. 1, 26: to t. (al. subigere) up the earth with a ploughshare, s. terram ferro, Cic. Leg. 2. 18, 45. Freq.: subjecto, 1: to t. up rocks, s. saxa, Lucr. 6, 700.

2. ejecto, 1 (to t. out): to t. up ashes, e. favillam, Ov. M. 2, 231: to t. up his bloody meal from his mouth, e. dapes cruentas ore, id. ib. 14, 211.

3. eructo, 1 (to belch forth): to t. up blood, e. saniem, Virg. Aen. 3, 632: to t. up flames, vapour, and smoke, c. flammas, vaporem, fumum, Just. 4, 1: v. VOMIT.

4. ruo, rui, ruĭtum, 3 (poet.): to t. up a dark cloud to the sky, r. atram nubem ad coelum, Virg. G. 2, 308.

5. sŭperjacto, 1: Val. Max. 9, 2, 4: v. TOSS UP.

6. exstruo, xi, ctum, 3 (to heap up): to t. up an earthwork, e. aggerem, Caes. B. C. 2, 1: v. HEAP UP.

7. praejăcio, jēci, jactum, 3 (to t. up in front): Col. 8, 17, 10. Phr.: earth thrown up, regestum, Col. 11, 3, 10: speaking of Aetna, Virg. Aen. 3, 572, foll. has "prorumpere nubem" ... "attollere globos" ... "erigere eructantem scopulos:" cf. Lucr. 6 699: of a whirlwind tearing up crops, sublime expulsam segetem eruere, id. G. 1, 320 (= to tear up by the roots and t. up into the air).

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