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ordure
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Word definitions for ordure in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn: fecal matter , faecal matter , feces , faeces , BM , stool , dejection ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French ordure "filth, uncleanliness" (12c.), from ord , ort "filthy, dirty, foul," from Latin horridus "dreadful" (see horrid ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ordure \Or"dure\, n. [F. ordure, OF. ord filthy, foul, fr. L. horridus horrid. See Horrid .] Dung; excrement; f[ae]ces. --Shak. Defect; imperfection; fault. [Obs.] --Holland.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. excrement; dung.
Usage examples of ordure.
In the washroom another deracinating spectacle: marks and pfennigsgood tenderstuck to the wall with human ordure.
Why did one of my alembiques strike my head, and my plaster Baphomet, it falls to the floor, and that a memento of my late father, and on the wall three writings appear in red, ordures I cannot repeat, hein?
These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste, and lessening its relish for sound food.
In the washroom another deracinating spectacle: marks and pfennigs—good tender—stuck to the wall with human ordure.
There was a noise of carillons and thunderbolts, a buffeting wind, blinding flashes of light that penetrated my closed lids, smells of ordure and ozone and doping perfume.
There was a noise of carillons and thunderbolts, a buffeting wind, blinding flashes of light that penetrated my dosed lids, smells of ordure and ozone and doping perfume.
Broad streaks of ordure, like a giant’s fingerpainting, ran crazily up the walls.
Above, bats stirred like the flying rats that they were and dropped their own crunchy ordure over the whole.
The main buildings were set back from the dust and ordure of the streets, visible only through a high gate.
Moinet as a ``bon petit coeur,'' is enveloped in the political ordure slung by venal pamphleteers at the masterful men of her race.
And ever the greater merit shall he have who restrains the wicked enkindlings of the ordure of this sin.