Obs. Also 7 excrescion, -sion. [A non-etymological formation (for EXCRETION) on L. excrēscĕre. Cf. CONCRESSION.] An outgrowth; = EXCRETION2.
1610. Markham, Masterp., II. cxxix. 430. Such bones, knobs, or bunches, are called excresions.
1623–6. Cockeram, Excrescion.
1635. Markham, Faithful Farrier (1638), 102. Any bony excression … upon any member of an Horse; as Splint, Spaven.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Rules, If there are hard Knots … on the outside, they are Screws or Excressions.
fig. 1647. J. Lawnind, Putney Projects, 39. Those excressions of nature, the great Lawyers.
