Word Meanings - EXCERN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration. Bacon.
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- BACON
The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's - BACONIAN
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction. - THROW
Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden. - THROWING
a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried - EXCERNENT
Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion. - THROW-OFF
A start in a hunt or a race. - THROUGH
thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece - THROWER
One who throws. Specifically: One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine. - PERSPIRATION
1. The act or process of perspiring. 2. That which is excreted through the skin; sweat. Note: A man of average weight throws off through the skin during 24 hours about 18 ounces of water, 300 grains of solid matter, and 400 grains of carbonic acid - THROWN
a. & p. p. from Throw, v. Thrown silk, silk thread consisting of two or more singles twisted together like a rope, in a direction contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread - EXCERN
To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration. Bacon. - THROWSTER
One who throws or twists silk; a thrower. - THROUGHLY
Thoroughly. Bacon. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Ps. li. 2. To dare in fields is valor; but how few Dare to be throughly valiant to be true Dryden. - EXCRETE
To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper. - THROWE
A turning lathe. - THROW-CROOK
An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw. - THROWING STICK
An instrument used by various savage races for throwing a spear; -- called also throw stick and spear thrower. One end of the stick receives the butt of the spear, as upon a hook or thong, and the other end is grasped with the hand, which also holds - THROUGHOUT
Quite through; from one extremity to the other of; also, every part of; as, to search throughout the house. Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year. Milton. - MISTHROW
To throw wrongly. - WHERETHROUGH
Through which. "Wherethrough that I may know." Chaucer. Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee. Shak. - OUTTHROW
1. To throw out. Spenser. 2. To excel in throwing, as in ball playing. - TWO-THROW
Capable of being thrown or cranked in two directions, usually opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank; a two-throw switch. Having two crank set near together and opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank shaft. - DOWNTHROW
The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n. - YTHROWE
p. p. of Throw. Chaucer.