Word Meanings - EXCRETE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.

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• MUCUS
  A viscid fluid secreted by mucous membranes, which it serves to moisten and protect. It covers the lining membranes of all the cavities which open externally, such as those of the mouth, nose, lungs, intestinal canal, urinary passages, etc.
• HOOPER
  One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.
• 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
• THROW-OFF
  A start in a hunt or a race.
• THROWER
  One who throws. Specifically: One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
• EXCRETA
  Matters to be excreted.
• SEPARATE
  pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen. xiii.
• 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
• THROWSTER
  One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.
• EXCRETORY
  Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.
• URINE
  In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion. Note: In man, the urine is a clear, transparent fluid of an amber color and peculiar odor, with an average density of 1.02. The average amount
• 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.
• EXCRETION
  1. The act of excreting. To promote secretion and excretion. Pereira. 2. That which is excreted; excrement. Bacon.
• 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
• EXCRETIVE
  Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion. Harvey.
• MUCUSIN
  Mucin.
• EXCRETIN
  A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human fæces.
• WHOOPER
  One who, or that which, whooops. Woopher swan. See the Note under Swan.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• DASYURINE
  Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures.
• FURFURINE
  A white, crystalline base, obtained indirectly from furfurol.
• TAURINE
  Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.
• MISTHROW
  To throw wrongly.
• AVENTURINE
  A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica. ~= feldspar, a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone. (more info) 1. A kind
• XENURINE
  A cabassou.
• DATURINE
  Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina.
• ESURINE
  Causing hunger; eating; corroding. Wiseman.
• OUTTHROW
  1. To throw out. Spenser. 2. To excel in throwing, as in ball playing.
• TIMBURINE
  A tambourine.
• VENTURINE
  Gold powder for covering varnished surfaces.
• VULTURINE
  Of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle (Gypohierax Angolensis); vulturine rapacity. The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor. C. Kingsley.