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Secrete \Se*crete"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Secreted; p. pr. & vb. n. Secreting.] [L. secretus separated, secret, hidden, p. p. of secernere. See Secret, and cf. Discrete, Discreet.]
To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.
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(Physiol.) 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 know.
--Carpenter.Syn: To conceal; hide. See Conceal.
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Usage examples of "secreted".
His embarkation was clandestine: and, if we may credit a tale of the princess Anne, he passed the hostile sea closely secreted in a coffin.
He left the knapsack in the weeds, and secreted one short-fused bomb against a rickety godown, the other behind a hovel.
No doubt much more acid would have been secreted had the leaves been excited by animal matter, but this would have rendered the analysis more difficult.
This fact probably indicates that the ferment is not secreted until the glands are excited by the absorption of a minute quantity of already soluble animal matter,a conclusion which is supported by what we shall hereafter see with respect to Dionaea.
The acid seems to be secreted quickly, for in one case the secretion from the discal glands, on which a little powdered casein had been strewed, coloured litmus paper, before any of the exterior tentacles were inflected.
No mucus had been secreted, and the surrounding fluid was only just perceptibly tinted of a pale pink.
On the other hand, propionic acid, which is poisonous, does not cause much mucus to be secreted, yet the surrounding fluid became slightly pink.
The secretion dissolves bone, and even the enamel of teeth, but this is simply due to the large quantity of acid secreted, owing, apparently, to the desire of the plant for phosphorus.
But none of the glands secreted, excepting those which actually touched the meat or the secretion containing dissolved animal matter.
This would follow from various causes,-from the gradual contraction of the concavity,-from fluid in excess being secreted,-and from the generation of bubbles of air.
They were then placed on the small sessile glands, which being thus stimulated secreted copiously in the course of 7 hrs.
We may therefore conclude that whenever air is secreted within a bladder already full of water, some water will be slowly driven out through the orifice.
In the top drawer was the small bottle of the medication that he had secreted away against nights when the idea of sleep became impossible.
She went out, the Mex secreted in the soiled bodice that hardly covered her flaccid breasts, another coin, a twentieth of its value clutched in her hand.
In panic, he had rushed for the kitchen area and had barely enough time to assume a disguise, secreted there, that Katsumata had given him as, a few metres away, masked by a hedge, the Sergeant shoved past the bowing doorman, kicked off his sandals and stomped onto the veranda of the main house.