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recrement|ˈrɛkrɪmənt|
[a. F. récrément (1553 in Hatz.-Darm.), or ad. L. recrēment-um refuse, dross, etc., f. re- re- 2 + cernĕre to separate. Cf. excrement1.]
1. The superfluous or useless portion of any substance; refuse, dross, scum, off-scouring.
1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 26 Now what are seedes and egges of wormes or foule But recrements of preexisting things. 1640Bp. Hall Serm. Rem. Wks. (1660) 41 Light..discovers all the foulnesse of the most earthly recrements, it mixeth with none of them. 1707Sloane Jamaica I. 57 It was thrown up by the waves with other recrements of the sea. 1774Pennant Tour Scotl. in 1772, 165 [The rocks] did not appear to me a lava, or under any suspicion of having been the recrement of a Vulcano.
fig.1622Bp. Hall Serm. 15 Sept. Wks. (1627) 493 Those other sullen, mopish creatures are the..off-scouring and recrements of the world. 1698[R. Ferguson] View Eccles. 72 The greatliest offensive Recrements of the Mountebank's Stage. 1819H. Busk Vestriad i. 748 Some coarse drab, the recrement of earth! 1882J. B. Stallo Concepts Mod. Physics 292 A recrement of ancient tradition.
2. spec.
a. A waste product or excretion of an animal or vegetable body; also Physiol., a fluid which is separated from the blood and again absorbed into it, as the saliva or bile (opp. to excrement).
1615Crooke Body of Man ii. ii. (1631) 65 That it [the venter] might better receiue the recrements or excrements of both concoctions. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. Digress. 351 The superfluous Serosities and other Recrements of the Blood. 1733Tull Horse-hoeing Husb. i. (Dubl.) 7 Plants..have only fine Recrements, which are thrown off by the Leaves. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. v. §3 (1819) 55 The vestiges of animal or vegetable recrements. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 160 Whatever recrement or other materials are co-acervated in any part of the intestines.
†b. The dross or scoria of metallic substances.
1611Cotgr., Chalcite, the recrement of brasse, cleauing to the sides of the furnaces wherein tis purified. 1678Phil. Trans. XII. 1051 Slag..is the Recrement of Iron. 1758J. S. tr. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) Dict., Lithargyrum,..a Recrement of Lead thrown off from Silver refined. |