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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Excreted

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Excreting

[L.

excretus

, p. p. of

excernere

to sift out, discharge;

out +

cernere

to sift, separate. See

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.

“The mucus thus excreted.”

Hooper.

Verb.

[L. excretus, infra.] To separate and throw off; to discharge; as, to excrete urine.

See also: excrete, excrété, and excreté

excrète