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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.

ndance 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.

ith 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.

ral calculus, when developed according to the method used by Leibnitz, who regarded the increments given to variables as infinitesimal.

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

of an act or process; state or condition; as, aliment, that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment, piece broken, segment; abridgment, act of abridging, imprisonment, movement, adjournment; amazement, state of being amazed, astonishment.

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

An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement. [Obs.]

Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak.

The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the eduction of metallic ores; dross.

Of or pertaining to scoria; like scoria or the recrement of metals; partaking of the nature of scoria.

refuse; recrement; anything vile or worthless. The great and innocent are insulted by the scum and refuse of the people. Addison.

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.

The dross, or recrement, of a metal; also, vitrified cinders.

Excrement; dung. [Obs.]

Excrement; dung. [Obs.]