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Definition of Feculences
1. feculence [n] - See also: feculence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feculences
Literary usage of Feculences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Analyst (1879)
"This result is obtained without the use of bone-black, and the only method of
purification adopted is the plan of precipitating the vegetable " feculences ..."
2. The Analyst by Society of Public Analysts (Great Britain). (1880)
"This result is obtained without the use of bone-black, and the only method of
purification adopted is the plan of precipitating the vegetable " feculences ..."
3. The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies by Bryan Edwards (1806)
"feculences discharged from the still- house, mixed up with rubbish of buildings,
white- lime, Sic. 3dly. Refuse, or field-trash, (ie) the decayed leaves and ..."
4. The History of the Maroons, from Their Origin to the Establishment of Their by Robert Charles Dallas (1803)
"The warm liquor remaining a while undif- turbed, the feculences attracting,
entangle each other and rife in a ..."
5. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"The feculences are principally skimmed off in the rear pan, in which the crude
juice is introduced, but they are also skimmed olf the boiling liquid in the ..."
6. The Emporium of Arts and Sciences by John Redman Coxe (1813)
"The feculences, add to the dung heap. The solution is evaporated till on trial
being cold, it is gelatinous ; in this state, while hot, it is poured into ..."
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