Originally: the cleansing of the body of waste material, an excess of a humour, etc. In later use: spec. the emptying of the bowels, esp. by the use…

The action of shit, v.; an instance of this.

spec. The function or action of defecating or urinating; excretion; an instance of this. Obsolete.

Evacuation or excretion from the body.

The expulsion or elimination of something, esp. excrement, from the body; an instance of this. Obsolete.

The process or means of giving or obtaining relief from anything considered troublesome or unpleasant. The action of relieving the body by urinating…

also attributive.

Evacuation. Obsolete.

spec. Physiology. The process of discharging (waste matter, etc.) through the excretory organs (now esp. from the bowels); an instance of this…

The action of evacuating the bowels; an act of discharging fæces. by stool: by fæcal as distinguished from other means of evacuation.

spec. Evacuation of the bowels. Obsolete.

The action or function of defecating; the dropping of dung; an instance of this.

General attributive, as purging commission, purging day, †purging faculty, purging quality, etc.

The action or process of evacuating the bowels; also, concrete the matter evacuated.

A bowel movement (movement, n. 12).

Medicine. Evacuation of the bowels, fæcal discharge.

The action of casting out of the body that which has been separated by any of the organs; esp. evacuation of the bowels.

The action of discharging (excrement). Also concrete matter excluded, excrement. Obsolete.

= purgation, n. 4a. rare.

The action of discharging or relieving the contents of the bowels, etc.; evacuation; the action of disburdening nature. Const. of. Obsolete.

Evacuation of the bowels.

Excrement.

Defecation.

The action or an act of defecation (or urination). In plural: †faeces (obsolete). Obsolete.

‘Stool’, evacuation of the bowels. (Cf. siege, n. 3b) Obsolete.

An evacuation of the bowels. rare. Now historical.

The action or an act of passing faeces.

slang (originally nursery). An act of breaking wind or of defecation; (concrete) faeces; (figurative) nonsense.

Frequently in bowel movement. A motion of the bowels. Also (in singular and plural): faeces.

Originally U.S. colloquial (euphemistic). Excrement, a lump or piece of this; an act of defecation. Esp. in to do a job: to defecate. Cf. big job n.…

An act of defecation. Frequently in to take (also have) a shit: to defecate.

An act of defecation. Frequently in to take (also have, do) a crap: to defecate.

An act of defecation.

Defecation (usually when caused by incontinence or stress in a patient or child).

A disgusting or unpleasant substance; spec. excrement; (also) an act of defecation. Also more generally: something worthless or inferior; rubbish…

euphemistic. Frequently in form jobby. = job, n.2 9. Also to do a jobby.

Now usually in form poo. Chiefly British. As a count noun: an act of defecation; a lump of excrement.