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Word Meanings - TRUNKWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Work or devices suitable to be concealed; a secret stratagem.

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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
  • CONCEALED
    Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
  • 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.
  • SECRETNESS
    1. The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed. 2. Secretiveness; concealment. Donne.
  • SECRETORY
    Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. -- n.
  • STRATAGEM
    An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak. Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but
  • SECRETARIAT; SECRETARIATE
    The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc.
  • CONCEALER
    One who conceals.
  • SECRETITIOUS
    Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors. Floyer.
  • SUITABLE
    Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness, n. -- Suit"a*bly, adv. Syn. -- Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant;
  • SECRETLY
    In a secret manner.
  • SECRETARYSHIP
    The office, or the term of office, of a secretary.
  • CONCEALABLE
    Capable of being concealed.
  • 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.
  • STRATAGEMICAL
    Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle. Swift.
  • 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
  • SECRETIST
    A dealer in secrets.
  • UNDERSECRETARY
    A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
  • INCONCEALABLE
    Not concealable. "Inconcealable imperfections." Sir T. Browne.
  • 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.
  • HYPERSECRETION
    Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.
  • UNSECRET
    To disclose; to divulge. Bacon.

 

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