Excreate
(Ex"cre*ate) v. t. [L. excreare, exsreare; ex out + screare to hawk.] To spit out; to discharge
from the throat by hawking and spitting. [Obs.] Cockeram.
Excreation
(Ex`cre*a"tion) n. [L. excreatio, exscreatio.] Act of spitting out. [Obs.] Cockeram.
Excrement
(Ex"cre*ment) n. [L. excrementum, fr. excernere, excretum, to skin out, discharge: cf. F.
excrément. See Excrete.] Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal
body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.
Excrement
(Ex"cre*ment), n. [L. excrementum, fr. excrescere, excretum, to grow out. See Excrescence.]
An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth. [Obs.] "Ornamental excrements." Fuller.
Living creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which are
excrements and no parts.
Bacon. Excremental
(Ex`cre*men"tal) a. Of or pertaining to excrement.
Excrementitial
(Ex`cre*men*ti"tial Ex`cre*men*ti"tious) a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of
the nature of excrement.
Excrementive
(Ex`cre*men"tive) a. Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement. [R.] "The
excrementive parts." Felthman.
Excrementize
(Ex"cre*ment*ize`) v. i. To void excrement. [R.] Life of A. Wood .
Excrescence
(Ex*cres"cence) n. [F. excrescence, excroissanse, L. excrescentia excrescences, neut.
pl. of p. pr. of excrescere. See Excrescent.] An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything
growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome
superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant. "Excrescences of joy." Jer.
Taylor.
The excrescences of the Spanish monarchy.
Addison. Excrescency
(Ex*cres"cen*cy) n. Excrescence. [Obs.]
Excrescent
(Ex*cres"cent) a. [L. excresens, -entis, p. pr. of excrescere to grow out ; ex out + crescere
to grow. See Crescent.] Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.
Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts.
Pope. Excrescent letter (Philol.), a letter which has been added to a root; as, the d in alder (AS. alr) is an
excrescent letter.
Excrescential
(Ex`cres*cen"tial) a. Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. [R.] Hawthorne.
Excreta
(||Ex*cre"ta) n. pl. [L.] Matters to be excreted.
Excrete
(Ex*crete") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excreted; p. pr. & vb. n. Excreting.] [L. excretus, p. p. of
excernere to sift out, discharge; ex out + cernere to sift, separate. See Crisis.] To separate and throw
off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.
Excretin
(Ex"cre*tin) n. [From Excrete.] (physiol. Chem.) A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present
in small quantity in human fæces.
Excretion
(Ex*cre"tion) n. [Cf. F. excrétion.]
