Part 893

A pitiful excoriation of the poorer sort.

Howell.

Ex*cor"ti*cate (?), v. t. [L. ex out, from + cortex, corticis, bark.] To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate. [Obs.] "Excorticate the tree." Evelyn.

Ex*cor`ti*ca"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. excortication.] The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication.

Ex"cre*a*ble (?), a. [L. excreabilis, exscreabilis, fr. exscreare. See Excreate.] Capable of being discharged by spitting. [Obs.] Swift.

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.

Ex`cre*a"tion (?), n. [L. excreatio, exscreatio.] Act of spitting out. [Obs.] Cockeram.

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.

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.

Ex`cre*men"tal (?), a. Of or pertaining to excrement.

{ Ex`cre*men*ti"tial (?), Ex`cre*men*ti"tious (?), } a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.

Ex`cre*men"tive (?), a. Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement. [R.] "The excrementive parts." Felthman.

Ex"cre*ment*ize` (?) v. i. To void excrement. [R.] Life of A. Wood &?;.

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.

Ex*cres"cen*cy (?), n. Excrescence. [Obs.]

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.

Ex`cres*cen"tial (?) a. Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. [R.] Hawthorne.

||Ex*cre"ta (?), n. pl. [L.] Matters to be excreted.

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.

Ex"cre*tin (?), n. [From Excrete.] (physiol. Chem.) A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human fæces.

Ex*cre"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. excrétion.] 1. The act of excreting.