| 释义 |
fæces, n. pl.|ˈfiːsiːz|
Forms: 5–8 feces, -is, 6 fecies, fesses, (8 feeces), 7– fæces.
[a. L. fæces pl. of fæx dregs.]
1. Sediment; dregs, lees, subsidence, refuse.
1460–70Bk. Quintessence i. 4 Rotun fecis of wiyn. 1527Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters B vij, Euery water shold be cast upon his owne feces. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. ii. 40 The Lee or fæces of y⊇ best sallet oyle. 1655Culpepper Riverius i. ii. 13 The fecies or residents of the Powder in the bottom. 1742Lond. & Country Brew. i. (ed. 4) 73 The Fæces or Sediment which causes the Fermentation to be fierce or mild. 1811A. T. Thomson Lond. Disp. (1818) 524 Set apart the liquor, that the fæces..may subside.
2. Waste matter that is discharged from the bowels; excrement.
1639Beaumont & Fletcher M. Thomas ii. iii Do you mark the faeces? 'Tis a most pestilent contagious fever. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 293 If there be any Acrimony in the Fæces. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. i. 96 The Impressions which the Aliment, Bile, and Fæces, make upon the villous Coat. 1802Med. Jrnl. VIII. 369 The expulsion of the fæces. 1872Huxley Phys. vi. 139 The residue..leaves the body as the fæces. |