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.