recrement

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noun

Waste matter or dross.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounrecrement (plural recrements)

plural recrements

  1. Waste matter or dross.
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    [O]bſerving [...] abundance of Matter floating in the Urine like Bran, with a great Number of Recrements like Cuttings of Hair, ſome above an Inch long, which Subſtances were found in all the Water that I made in above Twelve Months; for which I could get no Remedy: I was adviſed to drink Water, which in about half a Year did intirely free me from thoſe Symptoms, [...]

    1723, John Smith, The Curiosities of Common Water: Or The Advantages thereof in Preventing and Curing Many Distempers. […], 5th edition, London: […] John and Barham Clark, […], →OCLC, pages 9–10
  2. biologyA bodily secretion that is reabsorbed into the blood.

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APA

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Chicago

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