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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
excrement
    n 1: waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces)
         discharged from the body [syn: body waste, excretion,
         excreta, excrement, excretory product]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Excrement \Ex"cre*ment\, n. [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.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Excrement \Ex"cre*ment\, n. [L. excrementum, fr. excrescere,
   excretum, to grow out. See Excrescence.]
   An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth. [Obs.] "Ornamental
   excrements." --Fuller.
   [1913 Webster]

         Living creatures put forth (after their period of
         growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which
         are excrements and no parts.             --Bacon.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for excrement:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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