From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Excrement \Ex"cre*ment\, noun [L. excrementum, fr. excernere, excretum, to skin out, discharge: cf. F. excr['e]ment. 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Excrement \Ex"cre*ment\, noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body [syn: {body waste}, {excretion}, {excreta}, {excretory product}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "excrement": carrion, corruption, dandruff, decay, dejecta, dejection, dejecture, discharge, effluent, egesta, ejecta, ejectamenta, ejection, excreta, excretes, extravasate, extravasation, exudate, exudation, filth, foul matter, furfur, gangrene, mess, muck, mucus, obscenity, ordure, pus, putrid matter, rot, scurf, scuz, slime, smut, snot, sordes, transudate, transudation, waste, waste matter
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