Meaning of call of nature | Babel Free

Definitions

The bodily urge to urinate or defecate.

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“It appears from the evidence adduced that after the canvass had continued five or six consecutive hours, Mr. FORBES and Mr. DECKER, two inspectors went out (though not in company) as they say⟳ in "obedience to a call⟳ of nature," and were gone five or ten minutes, leaving the box containing the votes for member of Assembly sealed in the care of one inspector. . . .”

“I came here yesternight for a call⟳ of nature and to do what none can do for me[.]”

“. . . the little tree in the big forest of the huge national park⟳ behind which Mrs. Marie Dressor retreated from a roadside picnic with her husband and children, to heed a call⟳ of nature.”

“Cook's concentration may have⟳ been broken by a call⟳ of nature a few minutes earlier, when he held up play⟳ to visit⟳ the bathroom.”

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