Word Meanings - CLOSEMOUTHED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.

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• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• SECRETARY
  secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public
• SECRET
  segreto), fr. L. secretus, p.p. of secrernere to put apart, to 1. Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut.
• CAUTIOUSNESS
  The quality of being cautious.
• SPEAKERSHIP
  The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
• SECRETNESS
  1. The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed. 2. Secretiveness; concealment. Donne.
• SPEAKER
  1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
• SECRETORY
  Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. -- n.
• SECRETARIAT; SECRETARIATE
  The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc.
• SECRETITIOUS
  Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors. Floyer.
• CAUTIOUS
  Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general. Cautious feeling for another's pain. Byron. Be swift to hear; but cautious of
• SECRETLY
  In a secret manner.
• CAUTIOUSLY
  In a cautious manner.
• SPEAK
  1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings. They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. Job. ii. 13. 2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell;
• SECRETARYSHIP
  The office, or the term of office, of a secretary.
• SECRETO-MOTORY
  Causing secretion; -- said of nerves which go to glands and influence secretion.
• SECRETAGE
  A process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs. Ure.
• SPEAKING
  1. The act of uttering words. 2. Public declamation; oratory.
• SECRETARIAL
  Of or pertaining to a secretary; befitting a secretary. Secretarial, diplomatic, or other official training. Carlyle.
• SECRETION
  The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• INCAUTIOUS
  Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark. You . . . incautious tread On fire with faithless embers overspread. Francis.
• OUTSPEAK
  1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
• UNBESPEAK
  To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
• FORSPEAK
  1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton.
• FORESPEAKING
  A prediction; also, a preface. Camden. Huloet.
• UNSPEAK
  To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay. Shak.
• BESPEAK
  besprecan, to speak to, accuse; pref. be- + sprecan to speak. See 1. To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was
• EXCITO-SECRETORY
  Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.
• HOME-SPEAKING
  Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. Milton.
• UNCAUTIOUSLY
  Incautiously.