Webster's Dictionary 1913

4132

Excoriable

Ex‐co″ri‐a‐ble (?). Capable of being excoriated.The scaly covering of fishes,... even in such as are excoriatable. Sir T. Browne.

4133

Excoriate

Ex‐co″ri‐ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Excoriated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.excoriating (?).] [L. excoriare; ex out + corium hide. cf. Scourge; see Cuirass.] To strip or wear off the sk...

4134

Excoriation

Ex‐co′ri‐a″tion (?), n. [Cf. F. excoriation.] 1. The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.2. Stripping of possession; s...

4135

Excorticate

Ex‐cor″ti‐cate (?), v. t. [L. ex out, from + cortex, corticis, bark.] To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate. “Excorticate the tree.” Evelyn.

4136

Excortication

Ex‐cor′ti‐ca″tion (?), n. [Cf. F. excortication.] The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication.

4137

Excreable

Ex″cre‐a‐ble (?), a. [L. excreabilis, exscreabilis, fr. exscreare. See Excreate.] Capable of being discharged by spitting. Swift.

4138

Excreate

Ex″cre‐ate (?), v. t. [L. excreare, exsreare; ex out + screare to hawk.] To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting. Cockeram.

4139

Excreation

Ex′cre‐a″tion (?), n. [L. excreatio, exscreatio.] Act of spitting out. Cockeram.

4140

Excrement

Ex″cre‐ment (?), n. [L. excrementum, fr. excernere, excretum, to skin out, discharge: cf. F. excrément. See Excrete.] Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast...

4141

Excrement (2)

Ex″cre‐ment, n. [L. excrementum, fr. excrescere, excretum, to grow out. See Excrescence.] An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth. “Ornamental excrements.” Fuller.Living creat...

4142

Excremental

Ex′cre‐men″tal (?), a. Of or pertaining to excrement.

4143

Excrementitial

{ Ex′cre‐men‐ti″tial (?), Ex′cre‐men‐ti″tious (?), } a.(Physiol.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.

4144

Excrementive

Ex′cre‐men″tive (?), a. Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement. “The excrementive parts.” Felthman.

4145

Excrementize

Ex″cre‐ment‐ize′ (?) v. i. To void excrement. Life of A. Wood �.

4146

Excrescence

Ex‐cres″cence (?) n. [F. excrescence, excroissanse, L. excrescentia excrescences, neut. pl. of p. pr. of excrescere. See Excrescent.] An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumo...

4147

Excrescency

Ex‐cres″cen‐cy (?), n. Excrescence.

4148

Excrescent

Ex‐cres″cent (?), a. [L. excresens, -entis, p. pr. of excrescere to grow out; ex out + crescere to grow. See Crescent.] Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a super...

4149

Excrescential

Ex′cres‐cen″tial (?) a. Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. Hawthorne.

4150

Excreta

‖Ex‐cre″ta (?), n. pl. Matters to be excreted.

4151

Excrete

Ex‐crete″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Excreted; p. pr. & vb. n.Excreting.] [L. excretus, p. p. of excernere to sift out, discharge; ex out + cernere to sift, separate. See Crisis.] ...

4152

Excretin

Ex″cre‐tin (?), n. [From Excrete.] (physiol. Chem.) A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human fæces.

4153

Excretion

Ex‐cre″tion (?), n. [Cf. F. excrétion.] 1. The act of excreting.To promote secretion and excretion. Pereira.2. That which is excreted; excrement. Bacon.

4154

Excretive

Ex‐cre″tive (?), a. Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion. Harvey.

4155

Excretory

Ex‐cre″to‐ry (?), a. [Cf. F. excrétoire.] Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.

4156

Excruciable

Ex‐cru″ci‐a‐ble (?), a. [L. excruciabilis.] Liable to torment. Bailey.

4157

Excruciate

Ex‐cru″ci‐ate (?), a. [L. excruciatus, p. p. of excruciare to excruciate; ex out + cruciare to put to death on a cross, to torment. See Cruciate, Cross.] Excruciated; tortured.A...

4158

Excruciate (2)

Ex‐cru″ci‐ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Excruciated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Excruciating (?).] To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excrucia...