Definitions
Etymologies
- Latin egeries ("excrements"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin, neuter pl. of ēgestus, past participle of ēgerere, to carry out; see egest. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Ambergris was long supposed to be a fossil, a vegetable which grew upon the sea-bottom or rose in springs; or a “substance produced in the water like naphtha or bitumen” (!): now it is known to be the egesta of a whale.”
“When he examined the egesta, and felt his pulse, he declared that much of the virus was discharged, and, giving him a composing draught, assured him he had good hopes of his recovery. —”
“Do the egesta pass out in the form of normal feces?”
“The gases, vapors, and liquid and solid egesta thrown off from its body to be collected, analysed, and the calefacient [15] value of the combustible portion of them to be determined.”
“Yet chemical analysis has clearly proved that the manurial value of straw is perfectly insignificant, and that, as a constituent of stable manure, it is chiefly useful as an absorbent of the liquid egesta of the animals littered upon it.”
“The amount of cellulose in the food was determined, and the proportion of that substance in the egesta was also ascertained; and as there was a considerable discrepancy between the two amounts, it was evident that the difference represented the weight of the cellulose assimilated by the animals.”
“The weight of a working full-grown horse does not vary from day to day, as the weight of its egesta is equal to that of its food.”
“The animals, together with their food, drink, and egesta, were weighed daily.”
“We can determine the amount of plastic food consumed by an animal during a given period: we can ascertain the increase (if any) in the weight of its body; and finally, we can weigh and analyse its egesta.”
“With these data it is comparatively easy to ascertain the quantity of food which produced the increase in the animal's weight; but they do not enable us to determine the amount expended in keeping it alive, because the egesta might be largely made up of unappropriated food -- organised matter which had done no work in the animal body.”
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