Lewis & Short

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1. excrēmentum, i, n. [excerno].

  1. I. What is sifted out, the refuse, Col. 8, 5, 25; Pall. Febr. 26, 3; id. Nov. 20, 4.
    More freq.,
  2. II. What passes from the body, excrement, ordure, Plin. 11, 26, 32, § 94; 9, 45, 68, § 147: oris, spittle, Tac. H. 4, 81: narium, mucus of the nose, id. A. 16, 4.

2. excrēmentum, i, n. [excresco],

  1. I. an elevation, prominence: humilior inter excrementa costarum spina, Sid. Ep. 1, 2.
  2. II. Transf., of numbers which increase regularly in series: sic decem milia ceteraque excrementa, Mart. Cap. 7, § 734.