excrement1 (eks krement)

[= D. excrement = G. excremente, pl., = Dan. Sw. exkrementer, pl., feces. The earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement . Shak., T. of A., iv. 3. IMG:content-0872.jpg:[blocks in formation] an elevation, prominence, ML. also an increase, lit. that which has grown up, Why is Time such a niggard of hair, being, as it is, so plentiful an excrement? Shak., C. of E., ii. 2. Upon this [head] grows the hair, which though it be esteemed an excrement , is of great use to cherish and keep warm the brain. Ray, Works of Creation, ii. excremental (eks-krē-men'tal), a. [= Sp. ex cremental = It. escrementale; as excrement1 + -al.] Pertaining to or resembling excrement. Whether those little dusty particles, upon the lower side of the leaves, be seeds and seminal parts, or rather, as it is commonly conceived, excremental separations, we have not been able to determine. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 7. excrement ary (eks-krē-men'ta-ri), a. [ Wherever this man speaks, one gets a perception of Swedenborg's Excrement ary Hells. New York Tribune , May 17, 1862. excrementitial (eks"krē-men-tish'al), a. Same as excrementitious . excrementitious1 (eks krē-men-tish'us), a. [= Sp. Pg. excrement i cio, Excrementitious animal juices, such as musk [and] civet. Goldsmith, Taste. Rain-water collected from the roofs of houses, and stored in underground tanks, is often polluted to a dangerous extent by excrementitious matters, and is rarely of sufficiently good quality to be employed for dietetic purposes with safety. E. Frank land , Exper. in Chem., p. 553. excrementitious2 (eks" krē-men-tish'us), a. [ excrement2 + -itious ; after excrementitious1 .] Of the nature of a natural outgrowth or excrement. Hair is but an excrementitious Thing. Howell , Letters, I. i. 31. excrescence, excrescency (eks-kres'ens, -ens i), n.; pl. excrescences, excrescencies (-en-sez, -siz). [= F. excrescence = Sp. excrecencia = Pg. excrescencia = It. escrescenza (fem. sing.), an excrescence, Providence. a igns to christians no more but "food and raiment" for their own use all other excrescencies of po e ions being intrusted to the rich man's dispensation, only as to a steward. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 228. A man hath reason to doubt that his very best actions are sullied with some unhandsome excrescency. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 799. An excrescence and not a living part of poetry. Dryden. 21. Figuratively, an extravagant or exce ive outbreak: as, “ excrescences of joy," Jer . Taylor . Cauliflower excrescence, in pathol . See cauliflower . excrescent (eks-kres'ent), a. [ excrescere , grow out, grow up, rise up, in particular of morbid excrescences on the body, ex , out, + crescere, grow: see crescent.] Growing out of something else; specifically, abnormally put forth or added; hence, superfluous and incongruous: as, a wart is an excrescent growth on the hand; excrescent knots on a tree; excrescent ornaments on a dre or on a building. Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts. Pope, E ay on Man, ii. 49.