Methanogens are microbes that make methane gas Cows also make methane in their stomachs and burp it out, this is called eructation - I though you'd like to know. From Wordnik.com. [The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Sounds, Sasquatch, Stupidity, and Specters] Reference
But that eructation that day was in a different league. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
Remembering his manners, Tarrant tried gallantly, but the eructation eluded him. From Wordnik.com. [Modesty Blaise]
Mr.P. is sullen, and seems to mistake an eructation for the breaking of wind backwards. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle] Reference
Major Edward Conway scarcely grunted -- it might have been anything from an oath to an eructation. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Hand leaned back, patted his swollen stomach, and stifled an eructation with an embroidered napkin. From Wordnik.com. [The Lunatic Fringe]
And finally Christopher Hitchens will deliver a poisonous eructation at book-length in The Devil is Not Great. From Wordnik.com. [Sam Harris: In Defense of Witchcraft] Reference
He became gratified with the nectar he quaffed and thereupon an eructation came out, diffusing an excellent perfume all around. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
I produced a 4-minute pilot episode of a children's cartoon called "Cow-a-dunga!" that addresses methane flatulance and eructation but in a funny way. From Wordnik.com. [Stop belching, Bessie! You're ruining the environment! | The Greenwash Brigade | Marketplace from American Public Media] Reference
Jameson over at the Big Idea attacks him for, in what I considered at the time to be a lengthy eructation of ill conceived, frequently picayune argument, unworthy of response. From Wordnik.com. [2010 March 26 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference
If faux erudition and willful misreading set your pants on fire, go have a bonfire with this lengthy eructation of ill conceived, frequently picayune argument contra James Wood’s How Fiction Works. From Wordnik.com. [2010 February 19 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference
This same result may follow when a sheep is choking, as the obstruction in the gullet prevents the eructation or passing of gas from the stomach so that the gas continues to accumulate until severe bloating results. From Wordnik.com. [The Veterinarian] Reference
The myopic digital calculation of coins, eructation consequent upon repletion. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
When they're trying to sound sophisticated, they use fancy words such as "eructation.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
They showed, moreover, that the voice was thundered by being uttered from the abdomen like an eructation. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Marvels of Astronomy] Reference
They will take eructation which will digest the food and there will be perfumed sweating for the digestion of water. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
In this case there is a stop of the motion of the heart, and at the same time a tendency to eructation from the stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
They showed to me, moreover, that their voice, being sent forth from the abdomen after the manner of an eructation, thus resounded like thunder. From Wordnik.com. [Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There] Reference
As for that maledictory eructation about your "feelings" toward the end of the piece: I should remind you that ladies, and children, read this paper too. From Wordnik.com. [Gypsy Scholar] Reference
He does not want his plate to be changed, he helps himself with his spoon out of the dishes; he does not know how to check an eructation or a yawn, and if he feels tired he leaves the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
If faux erudition and willful misreading set your pants on fire, go have a bonfire with this lengthy eructation of ill conceived, frequently picayune argument contra James Wood's How Fiction Works. From Wordnik.com. [Drupal] Reference
For this reason the philosophers among them did in their schools deliver to their pupils all their doctrines and opinions by eructation, wherein they had acquired a wonderful eloquence, and of incredible variety. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of a Tub] Reference
A recontre, for a fresh eructation of the metrical whine gave them sufficient notice. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
A certain space, and by a fugitive faculty peculiar to the ears of that animal, receive immediate benefit, either by eructation, or expiration, or evomition. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of a Tub] Reference
Now that I'm just an eructation. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Word of the Week #91 - eructation. From Wordnik.com. [Recommended Reading: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith] Reference
When there was wind, it was an eructation. From Wordnik.com. [Sulfur Island] Reference
(upper) end of the gastrointestinal tract, the language does have usable single words: to belch and a belch, as well as to eruct and an eructation. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3] Reference
As the result of that eructation. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Following this Miltonian eructation, we have. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
30. eructation. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
Thus an Omaha, after an eructation, says, "Thank you, animal.". From Wordnik.com. [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference
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