Part 4020

<h1>Excrement</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex"cre*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>excrementum</ets>, fr. <ets>excernere</ets>, <ets>excretum</ets>, to skin out, discharge: cf. F. <ets>excr\'82ment</ets>. See <er>Excrete</er>.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Excrement</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex"cre*ment</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>excrementum</ets>, fr. <ets>excrescere</ets>, <ets>excretum</ets>, to grow out. See <er>Excrescence</er>.]</ety> <def>An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Ornamental <i>excrements</i>."

<i>Fuller.</i>

<blockquote>Living creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which are <b>excrements</b> and no parts. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Excremental</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex`cre*men"tal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to excrement.</def>

<h1>Excrementitial, Excrementitious</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw><hw>Ex`cre*men*ti"tial</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Ex`cre*men*ti"tious</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.</def>

<h1>Excrementive</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex`cre*men"tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "The <i>excrementive</i> parts."

<i>Felthman.</i>

<h1>Excrementize</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex"cre*ment*ize`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To void excrement.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Life of A. Wood <?/.</i>

<h1>Excrescence</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex*cres"cence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>excrescence</ets>, <ets>excroissanse</ets>, L. <ets>excrescentia</ets> excrescences, neut. pl. of p. pr. of <ets>excrescere</ets>. See <er>Excrescent</er>.]</ety> <def>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>as, an <ex>excrescence</ex> on the body, or on a plant</as>.</def> "<i>Excrescences</i> of joy."

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>

<blockquote>The <b>excrescences</b> of the Spanish monarchy. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Excrescency</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex*cres"cen*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Excrescence.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Excrescent</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex*cres"cent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>excresens</ets>, <ets>-entis</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>excrescere</ets> to grow out ; <ets>ex</ets> out + <ets>crescere</ets> to grow. See <er>Crescent</er>.]</ety> <def>Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.</def>

<blockquote>Expunge the whole, or lip the <b>excrescent</b> parts. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Excrescent letter</col> <fld>(Philol.)</fld>, <cd>a letter which has been added to a root; <as>as, the <i>d<i> in <i>alder<i> (AS. <i>alr<i>) is an <ex>excrescent letter<ex>.</as></cd></cs>

<h1>Excrescential</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex`cres*cen"tial</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>