EXCREMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does excrement mean? 

• EXCREMENT (noun)
  The noun EXCREMENT has 1 sense:

1. waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body

  Familiarity information: EXCREMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCREMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

body waste; excrement; excreta; excretion; excretory product

Hypernyms ("excrement" is a kind of...):

waste; waste material; waste matter; waste product (any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "excrement"):

BM; dejection; faecal matter; faeces; fecal matter; feces; ordure; stool (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels)

fecula (excreta (especially of insects))

wormcast (cylindrical mass of earth voided by a burrowing earthworm or lugworm)

human waste (the body wastes of human beings)

pee; piddle; piss; urine; water; weewee (liquid excretory product)

barf; puke; vomit; vomitus (the matter ejected in vomiting)

guano (the excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer)

 Context examples 

Unlike the regurgitated seeds of the sambar deer, the seeds went through the elephants' digestive system and were covered by excrement.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

They would sometimes alight upon my victuals, and leave their loathsome excrement, or spawn behind, which to me was very visible, though not to the natives of that country, whose large optics were not so acute as mine, in viewing smaller objects.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Eating of excrement.

(Coprophagia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

He usually continues in office till a worse can be found; but the very moment he is discarded, his successor, at the head of all the Yahoos in that district, young and old, male and female, come in a body, and discharge their excrements upon him from head to foot.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Several of this cursed brood, getting hold of the branches behind, leaped up into the tree, whence they began to discharge their excrements on my head; however, I escaped pretty well by sticking close to the stem of the tree, but was almost stifled with the filth, which fell about me on every side.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His employment, from his first coming into the academy, was an operation to reduce human excrement to its original food, by separating the several parts, removing the tincture which it receives from the gall, making the odour exhale, and scumming off the saliva.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I forgot another circumstance (and perhaps I might have the reader’s pardon if it were wholly omitted), that while I held the odious vermin in my hands, it voided its filthy excrements of a yellow liquid substance all over my clothes; but by good fortune there was a small brook hard by, where I washed myself as clean as I could; although I durst not come into my master’s presence until I were sufficiently aired.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Their next business is from herbs, minerals, gums, oils, shells, salts, juices, sea-weed, excrements, barks of trees, serpents, toads, frogs, spiders, dead men’s flesh and bones, birds, beasts, and fishes, to form a composition, for smell and taste, the most abominable, nauseous, and detestable, they can possibly contrive, which the stomach immediately rejects with loathing, and this they call a vomit; or else, from the same store-house, with some other poisonous additions, they command us to take in at the orifice above or below (just as the physician then happens to be disposed) a medicine equally annoying and disgustful to the bowels; which, relaxing the belly, drives down all before it; and this they call a purge, or a clyster.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He advised great statesmen to examine into the diet of all suspected persons; their times of eating; upon which side they lay in bed; with which hand they wipe their posteriors; take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool, which he found by frequent experiment; for, in such conjunctures, when he used, merely as a trial, to consider which was the best way of murdering the king, his ordure would have a tincture of green; but quite different, when he thought only of raising an insurrection, or burning the metropolis.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)