Obs. [f. next.] A growing out; in quots. concr. excess amount, increase.
1707. Stewart, Index to Scots Acts, 14 (Jam.). The excresce of the excise or the inland salt and forraign commodities, [etc.].
17[?]. W. Forbes, Suppl., Dec. 56 (Jam.). There happened in the coining sometimes an excresce on the tale, of five or six shillings or thereby, in one hundred pounds.
