*creme*

n. [ See accresce, Increment. ] (Physiol.) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respects like the individual from which it proceeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. concrementum, fr. concrescere. See Concrete. ] A growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The concrement of a pebble or flint. Sir M. Hale [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] Cream; -- a term used esp. in cookery, names of liqueurs, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. decrementum, fr. decrescere. See Decrease. ] 1. The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss. [ 1913 Webster ]

Twit me with the decrements of my pendants. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rocks, mountains, and the other elevations of the earth suffer a continual decrement. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Crystallog.) A name given by Haüy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Math.) The quantity by which a variable is diminished. [ 1913 Webster ]

Equal decrement of life. (a) The decrease of life in a group of persons in which the assumed law of mortality is such that of a given large number of persons, all being now of the same age, an equal number shall die each consecutive year. (b) The decrease of life in a group of persons in which the assumed law of mortality is such that the ratio of those dying in a year to those living through the year is constant, being independent of the age of the persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. excrementum, fr. excernere, excretum, to skin out, discharge: cf. F. excrément. See Excrete. ] Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. excrementum, fr. excrescere, excretum, to grow out. See Excrescence. ] An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth. [ Obs. ] “Ornamental excrements.” Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Living creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which are excrements and no parts. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to excrement.

{ } a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement. [ R. ] “The excrementive parts.” Felthman. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>v. i. To void excrement. [ R. ] Life of A. Wood &unr_;. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. incrementum: cf. F. incrément. See Increase. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement. [ 1913 Webster ]

The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Matter added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to decrement. “Large increment.” J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Math.) The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Rhet.) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: [ 1913 Webster ]

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, . . . think on these things. Phil. iv. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

Infinitesimal increment (Math.), an infinitesimally small variation considered in Differential Calculus. See Calculus. --
Method of increments (Math.), a calculus founded on the properties of the successive values of variable quantities and their differences or increments. It differs from the method of fluxions in treating these differences as finite, instead of infinitely small, and is equivalent to the calculus of finite differences. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. recrementum; pref. re- re- + cernere, cretum, to separate, sift: cf. F. récrément. ] 1. Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; as, the recrement of ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) (a) Excrement. [ Obs. ] (a) A substance secreted from the blood and again absorbed by it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Recrementitious. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. récrémentitiel. ] (Med.) Of the nature of a recrement. See Recrement, 2 (b). “Recrementitial fluids.” Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]