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Excrement

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.

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Dejection 76% connected

A casting down; depression.

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Faeces 76% connected

Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation.

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Feces 76% connected

dregs; sediment; excrement. See FAeces.

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Fecula 76% connected

Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence.

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Guano 76% connected

A substance found in great abundance on some coasts or islands frequented by sea fowls, and composed chiefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosph…

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Ordure 76% connected

Dung; excrement; faeces.

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Pee 76% connected

See 1st Pea.

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Piddle 76% connected

To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.

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Piss 76% connected

To discharge urine, to urinate.

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Puke 76% connected

To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.

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Stool 76% connected

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

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Urine 76% connected

In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion.

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Vomit 76% connected

To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.

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Water 76% connected

The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.

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Waste 76% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Excreta 92% connected

Matters to be excreted.

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Excretion 92% connected

The act of excreting.

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