Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EX-CO-RI-A'TION, n.

1. The act of flaying, or the operation of wearing off the skin or cuticle; a galling; abrasion; the state of being galled or stripped of skin.
2. Plunder; the act of stripping of possessions. [Not used.] Howell.

EX-COR-TI-CA'TION, n. [L. ex and cortex, bark.]

The act of stripping off bark. Coxe.

EX'CRE-A-BLE, a.

That may be discharged by spitting. [Little used.]

EX'CRE-ATE, v.t. [L. excreo, exscreo, to hawk and spit.]

To hawk and spit; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.

EX'CRE-A-TED, pp.

Discharged from the throat by hawking and spitting.

EX'CRE-A-TING, ppr.

Discharging from the throat by hawking and spitting.

EX-CRE-A'TION, n.

A spitting out.

EX'CRE-MENT, n. [L. excrementum, from excerno, excretus; ex and cerno, to separate, Gr. κρινω.]

Matter excreted and ejected; that which is discharged from the animal body after digestion; alvine discharges.

EX-CRE-MENT'AL, a.

Excreted or ejected by the natural passages of the body.

EX-CRE-MEN-TI'TIAL, a.

Pertaining to or consisting in excrement. Fourcroy.

EX-CRE-MEN-TI'TIOUS, a.

Pertaining to excrement; containing excrement; consisting in matter evacuated or proper to be evacuated from the animal body. Bacon. Harvey.

EX-CRES'CENCE, n. [L. excrescens, from excresco; ex and cresco, to grow.]

1. In surgery, a preternatural protuberance growing on any part of the body, as a wart or a tubercle; a superfluous part. Encyc.
2. Any preternatural enlargement of a plant, like a wart or tumor; or something growing out from a plant. Bentley.
3. A preternatural production. Tatler.

EX-CRES'CENT, a.

Growing out of something else, in a preternatural manner; superfluous; as a wart or tumor. Expunge the whole or lop the excrescent parts. Pope.

EX-CRETE', v.t. [L. excretus, infra.]

To separate and throw off; to discharge; as, to excrete urine.

EX-CRET'ED, pp.

Passed from the body by excretion.

EX-CRET'ING, ppr.

Discharging; separating by the natural ducts.

EX-CRE'TION, n. [L. excretio, from excerno, to separate.]

1. A separation of some fluid from the body, by means of the glands; a throwing off or discharge of animal fluids from the body.
2. That which is excreted; fluids separated from the body by the glands and called excrement. Bacon. Quincy. The term excretion is more usually applied to those secretions which are directly discharged from the body. It is also applied to the discharges from the bowels, which are called alvine excretions. Cyc.

EX'CRE-TIVE, a.

Having the power of separating and ejecting fluid matter from the body. Excretive faculty. Harvey.

EX'CRE-TO-RY, a.

Having the quality of excreting or throwing off excrementitious matter by the glands.

EX'CRE-TO-RY, n.

A little duct or vessel, destined to receive secreted fluids, and to excrete them; also a secretory vessel. The excretories are nothing but slender strips of the arteries, deriving an appropriated juice from the blood. Cheyne.

EX-CRU'CIA-BLE, a. [infra.]

Liable to torment. [Little used.]

EX-CRU'CIATE, v.t. [L. excrucio; ex and crucio, to torment, from crux, a cross.]

To torture; to torment; to inflict most severe pain on; as, to excruciate the heart or the body. Chapman.

EX-CRU'CIA-TED, pp.

Tortured; racked; tormented.

EX-CRU'CIA-TING, ppr.

1. Torturing, tormenting; putting to most severe pain.
2. adj. Extremely painful; distressing; as, excruciating fears.

EX-CRU-CI-A'TION, n.

Torture; extreme pain; vexation. Feltham.