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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Clo-ā'cā or CLO-ā'cē, n.

noun

n.; pl. CLO-ā'cē. [Lat.]

  1. A sewer, or underground conduit, for conveying away water or impurities; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.
  2. A house of office; a privy.
  3. (Physiol.) The excretory opening at the extremity of the intestinal canal, with which the intestines and urinary canal terminate in birds, fishes, and some inferior mammals. Carpenter.