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Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion. Harvey.

Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.

Stretched beyond ordinary limits.

Stretched beyond ordinary limits.

A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints. Mollett.

e color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.

The spur-winged goose; -- so called from the red circle around the eyes.

One who ferrets. Johnson.

Copper sulphide, used to color glass. Hebert.

Concrete strengthened by a core or foundation skeleton of iron or steel bars, strips, etc. Floors, columns, piles, water pipes, etc., have been successfully made of it. Called also armored concrete steel, and reënforced concrete.

A slight fever. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt. [prov. Eng.]

A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. Gray.

A small flower; a floret. Shak.

To taste before another. "Foretasted fruit." Milton.

One who tastes beforehand, or before another.

To teach beforehand. [Obs.]

o tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton.

One who predicts. Boyle.

ticipate in the mind; to prognosticate. [Obs.] The soul of every man Prophetically doth forethink thy fall. Shak.