Word Meanings - EXCRETION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of excreting. To promote secretion and excretion. Pereira. 2. That which is excreted; excrement. 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.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• EXCREMENTIVE
  Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement. "The excrementive parts." Felthman.
• 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.
• PROMOTE
  1. To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture. "Born
• PROMOTER
  1. One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy. Boyle. 2. Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation,
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• EXCRETA
  Matters to be excreted.
• EXCREMENTITIAL; EXCREMENTITIOUS
  Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.
• EXCRETORY
  Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.
• EXCRETE
  To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.
• EXCREMENTIZE
  To void excrement. Life of A. Wood
• EXCRETION
  1. The act of excreting. To promote secretion and excretion. Pereira. 2. That which is excreted; excrement. Bacon.
• EXCRETIVE
  Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion. Harvey.
• SECRETION
  The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and
• EXCREMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to excrement.
• EXCRETIN
  A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human fæces.
• HYPERSECRETION
  Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.