regurgitate

t. & i. [Low Latin regur gitatus, pa. par. of regurgito, from Lat. re -back, and gurges (gen it. gurgitis ) = a whirlpool; Sp. regur gitar; Ital. regur git are.] A. Trans .: To throw or pour back in great quan tity. "The inhabitants of the city remove themselves into the country so long, until, for want of receipt and encouragement, it regurgitates and sends them back."-Graunt: Bills of Mortality. B. In trans.: To be poured back; to pour or surge back. "Valvulæ to let pa the spirits from the brain into the muscles, but stop them if they would regurgitate ."-More: Immort. of the Soul , bk. ii., ch. v.