Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EX-CERN'
EX-CERN', v.t. [L. excerno; ex and cerno, Gr. κρινω, to separate.]
To separate and emit through the pores, or through small past passages of the body; to strain out; to excrete; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration. Bacon.
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