alvine

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The unpleasant smell of the alvine evacuations is assuredly a large element in the disgust these inspire.

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  1. Belonging to the belly or intestines; relating to or consisting of intestinal excrements.
  2. Alvine concretion a calculus formed in the stomach or intestines.
  3. Alvine dejections, alvine evacuations discharges from the bowels; feces. [The word is now scarcely used, except in these or similar phrases.]

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  1. = French alvin, from Latin alvus, the belly.
 

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