whatever is discharged out of the body of animals after digestion, or the fibrous parts of the aliment, mixed with the bile, saliva, and other fluids. Urine and the faeces are the gross excrements that are discharged out of the bladder or belly. Other excrements are the various humours that are secreted from the blood, through the various strainers in the body, and which serve for several uses, such as the saliva, sweat, bile, the pancreatic juice, lymph, the semen, nails, the hair, the horns and hoofs of animals.