recrement

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REC'REMENT, noun [Latin recrementum; probably re and cerno, to secrete.] Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; spume; as the recrement of ore or of the blood.
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