ORDURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ordure mean? 

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

1. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

BM; dejection; faecal matter; faeces; fecal matter; feces; ordure; stool

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

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

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

dog do; dog shit; dog turd; doggy do (fecal droppings from a dog)

crap; dirt; poop; shit; shite; turd (obscene terms for feces)

droppings; dung; muck (fecal matter of animals)

meconium (thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child)

melaena; melena (abnormally dark tarry feces containing blood (usually from gastrointestinal bleeding))

 Context examples 

He had a weekly allowance, from the society, of a vessel filled with human ordure, about the bigness of a Bristol barrel.

(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)