Ex"cre*ment (?), n. [L. excrementum, fr. excernere, excretum, to skin out, discharge: cf. F. excr'ement. See Excrete.] 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.
© Webster 1913.
Ex"cre*ment, n. [L. excrementum, fr. excrescere, excretum, to grow out. See Excrescence.] 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.
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