excrement Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body
    body waste; excretion; excretory product; excreta.

WordNet

Ex"cre*ment noun
Etymology
L. excrementum, fr. excernere, excretum, to skin out, discharge: cf. F. excrément. See Excrete.
Definitions
  1. 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.
Ex"cre*ment noun
Etymology
L. excrementum, fr. excrescere, excretum, to grow out. See Excrescence.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913