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EXCERN

Definition: EXCERN

EXCERN

Transitive verb

1. To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Excern \Ex*cern"\, transitive verb. [Latin expression excernere. See Excrete.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: EXCERN

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Ejection

Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: EXCERN

Etymologies containing "EXCERN": Excernent. (references)

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Anagrams: EXCERN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-r-x"

-2 letters: cere, erne, exec.

-3 letters: cee, ere, ern, nee, rec, ree, rex.

-4 letters: en, er, ex, ne, re.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-r-x"
 

+2 letters: exocrine.

 

+3 letters: exchanger, excrement, excreting, excretion, excurrent, exergonic, exocrines, neocortex.

 

+4 letters: coexerting, contexture, excerpting, excerption, exchangers, excrements, excrescent, excretions, execrating, execration, exercising, experience, exuberance.

 

+5 letters: contextures, excerptions, excremental, excrescence, excrescency, execrations, executioner, exorbitance, expectorant, experienced, experiences, exuberances, neocortexes, unexercised.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: EXCERN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 58 43 45 52 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -..-    -.-.    .    .-.    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01011000 01000011 01000101 01010010 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#88 &#67 &#69 &#82 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 0043 0045 0052 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

395837395248

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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