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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

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

r 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…

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

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.

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.

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.