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Cream; -- a term used esp. in cookery, names of liqueurs, etc.

Pertaining to accremention.

The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.

ng together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union. [Obs.] The concrement of a pebble or flint. Sir M. Hale

e state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss. Twit me with the decrements of my pendants. Ford. Rocks, mountains, and the other elevations of the earth suffer a continual decrement. Woodward.

An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth. [Obs.] "Ornamental excrements." Fuller. Living creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which are excrements and no parts. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to excrement.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.

Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement. [R.] "The excrementive parts." Felthman.

To void excrement. [R.] Life of A. Wood

t; augmentation; enlargement. The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. Woodward. A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. Coleridge.

Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth.

Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; as, the recrement of ore.

Recrementitious.

Of the nature of a recrement. See Recrement,2 (b). "Recrementitial fluids." Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to recrement; consisting of recrement or dross. Boyle.

The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.

The act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as skin, feathers, excrement, etc. Casting of draperies, the proper distribution of the folds of garments, in painting and sculpture. -- Casting line (Fishing), the leader; also, sometimes applied to the long reel line. Casting net, a net which is cast and drawn, in d…

st after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.