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A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

To void excrement.

The act or process of voiding excrement.

Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick.

The discharge of excrement.

That which is voided; excrements. Arbuthnot.

(Math.) See under Calculus. -- Differential coefficient, the limit of the ratio of the increment of a function of a variable to the increment of the variable itself, when these increments are made indefinitely small. -- Differential coupling, a form of slip coupling used in light machinery to regulate at pleasure the…

Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt. Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Is. lvii. 20.

That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals. Dropping bottle, an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel. -- Dropping fire, a continued irregular discharge of firearms. -- Dropping tube, a tube for ejecting any liquid in drops.

is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.

The excrement of an animal. Bacon.

To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.

That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta.

Any organ or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter.

Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable.

That which is excreted; excrement. Bacon.

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

are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials. Brande & C.

Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation. [Written also feces.]

dregs; sediment; excrement. See FÆces.