To belke or breake winde out of the stomacke: to sende or cast out. Per translationem. To speake rudely & with great despite. Eructare sermonibus cædem bonorum. Ci. In his talke despiteously to manace death vnto good men. Eructare odorem pestilentem, Var. To cast out a poysouous ayre. Eructat Bosphorus amnes. Val. Flac. Arenam eructare fluuij dicuntur. Virg. To cast vp granell & sand.

I. To belch or vomit forth, to throw up (rare but class.).

A. Prop.: unde tu nos turpissime eructando ejecisti, Cic. Pis. 6, 13: saniem eructans, Verg. A. 3, 632; cf. Col. 8, 8, 10.—

B. Trop.: caedem sermonibus suis, i. e. to talk of murder when drunk, Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 10.—

II. Ingen., to cast forth, emit, exhale: Tartarus horriferos eructans faucibus aestus, Lucr. 3, 1012: aquam, Varr. R. R. 3, 14, 2: odorem, id. ib. 1, 4, 4: noxium virus, Col. 1, 5, 6: harenam, Verg. A. 6, 297: flammas, vaporem, fumum, Just. 4, 1, 4.—

B. Esp., to utter (eccl. Lat.): abscondita, Vulg. Matt. 13, 35; id. Psa. 44, 2; August. Civ. D. 18, 32; cf. Lact. 4, 8, 14.