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To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.

ls, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.

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.

To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.

To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration. [R.] Bacon.

Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.

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

Matters to be excreted.

That which is excreted; excrement. Bacon.

A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.

Substance excreted from living animal bodies; that which is thrown out or discharged in a tumor, boil, or abscess; pus; purulent substance.

The urine, which is assumed to contain all the nitrogen truly excreted by the body, besides a large quantity of saline matters and water. Foster.

That which is excreted through the skin; sweat.

To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat.

That which is excreted; excretion. [Obs.]

Things thrown out or away; especially, things excreted by a living organism. J. Fleming.

s, or Diabetic, sugar (Med. Chem.), a variety of sugar (probably grape sugar or dextrose) excreted in the urine in diabetes mellitus. -- Fruit sugar. See under Fruit, and Fructose. -- Grape sugar, a sirupy or white crystalline sugar (dextrose or glucose) found as a characteristic ingredient of ripe grapes, and also p…

To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire. Shak.

To excrete through the skin; to give off in the form of vapor; to exhale; to perspire.

mployed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.