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merd

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Definition:
Ordure; dung. [Obs.]

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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 With all your broths, your menstrues, and materials,
 Of piss and egg-shells, women's terms, man's blood,
 Hair o' the head, burnt clouts, chalk, merds, and clay,
 Powder of bones, scalings of iron, glass,
 And worlds of other strange ingredients,
 Would burst a man to name?

Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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The silence was broken by a single word traveling across the water, softly spoken, but heartfelt in its sincerity.
Merde,” he said.

Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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