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

That which is excreted; excrement. Bacon.

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

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

dregs; sediment; excrement. See FÆces.

Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid. Both his hands most filthy feculent. Spenser.

A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.

bundance on some coasts or islands frequented by sea fowls, and composed chiefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosphates and ammonia, and is used as a powerful fertilizer.

with skatol, by putrefaction, and by fusion with caustic potash, and is present in human excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of some herbivora.

The contents of the fetal intestine; hence, first excrement.

To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute. [Obs.]

Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak.

Excrement. [Obs.]

To void excrement. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Massinger.

Excrement; scumber. [Obs.]

Dung; excrement. [Obs.] [Written also shern.] Holland.

Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter. [Obs.] The siege of this mooncalf. Shak.

Excrement; dung. [Obs.]

Excrement; dung. [Obs.]

væ feed upon the leaves of various plants, and protect themselves beneath a mass of dried excrement held over the back by means of the caudal spines. The golden tortoise beetle (Cassida aurichalcea) is found on the morning-glory vine and allied plants. -- Tortoise plant. (Bot.) See Elephant's foot, under Elephant. --…