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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

U'RINE, n. [L. urina; Gr.]
An animal fluid or liquor secreted by the kidneys, whence it is conveyed into the bladder by the ureters, and through the urethra discharged. The urine of beasts is sometimes called stale.
U'RINE, v.i. [supra.] To discharge urine.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water" [syn: urine, piss, pee, piddle, weewee, water]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin urina, from urinari to dive; akin to Sanskrit v?r water and perhaps to Sanskrit var?ati it rains, Greek ourein to urinate Date: 14th century waste material that is secreted by the kidney in vertebrates, is rich in end products of protein metabolism together with salts and pigments, and forms a clear amber and usually slightly acid fluid in mammals but is semisolid in birds and reptiles • urinous adjective

Britannica Concise

Liquid solution of metabolic wastes and other, often toxic, substances filtered from plasma. The fluid in the Bowman's capsule at the start of each nephron (capsular urine) is essentially plasma without the large molecules (e.g., proteins). The concentrated fluid (final urine) that exits the kidney consists of water, urea, inorganic salts, uric acid, creatinine, ammonia, and broken-down blood pigments, incl. urochrome, which makes urine yellow, plus any unusual substances not reabsorbed into the blood. This is then excreted. See also hematuria, urinalysis, urinary system, urination.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a pale-yellow fluid secreted as waste from the blood by the kidneys, stored in the bladder, and discharged through the urethra. Derivatives: urinous adj. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L urina

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Urine U"rine, v. i. To urinate. [Obs.] --Bacon.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Urine U"rine, n. [F. urine, L. urina; akin to urinari to plunge under water, to dive, Gr. ? urine; cf. Skr. v[=a]r water, Icel. ?r drizzling rain, AS. w[ae]r the sea.] (Physiol.) In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion. Note: In man, the urine is a clear, transparent fluid of an amber color and peculiar odor, with an average density of 1.02. The average amount excreted in 24 hours is from 40 to 60 ounces (about 1,200 cubic centimeters). Chemically, the urine is mainly an aqueous solution of urea, salt (sodium chloride), and uric acid, together with some hippuric acid and peculiar pigments. It usually has an acid reaction, owing to the presence of acid phosphates of soda or free uric acid. Normally, it contains about 960 parts of water to 40 parts of solid matter, and the daily average excretion is 35 grams (540 grains) of urea, 0.75 gram (11 grains) of uric acid, and 16.5 grams (260 grains) of salt. Abnormally, it may contain sugar as in diabetes, albumen as in Bright's disease, bile pigments as in jaundice, or abnormal quantities of some one or more of the normal constituents.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Urine is the liquid that you get rid of from your body when you go to the toilet.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Piss, animal-water.

Moby Thesaurus

chyle, colostrum, discharge, gleet, humor, ichor, lachryma, lactation, leukorrhea, lymph, matter, micturition, milk, mucor, mucus, peccant humor, pee, pee-pee, phlegm, piddle, pish, piss, purulence, pus, rheum, saliva, sanies, serous fluid, serum, snot, stale, suppuration, sweat, tear, teardrop, the whites, urea, urination, water, wee-wee