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Excretion

The act of excreting.

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Defecation 76% connected

The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification.

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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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Incontinence 76% connected

Alt. of Incontinency

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Incontinency 76% connected

Incapacity to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; want of continence; failure to restrain th…

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Laxation 76% connected

The act of loosening or slackening, or the state of being loosened or slackened.

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Micturition 76% connected

The act of voiding urine; also, a morbidly frequent passing of the urine, in consequence of disease.

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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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Urination 76% connected

The act or process of voiding urine; micturition.

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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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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Emission 76% connected

The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission…

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Expelling 76% connected

of Expel

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Waste 76% connected

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

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Eliminate 74% connected

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Eliminate 74% connected

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Elimination 92% connected

The act of expelling or throwing off

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Evacuation 92% connected

The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging.

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Excrement 92% connected

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

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Excreta 92% connected

Matters to be excreted.

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Excreting 92% connected

of Excrete

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Voiding 92% connected

of Void

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