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secern


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Secern  \Se*cern"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Secerned};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Secerning}.]  [L.  secernere  See  {Secrete}.] 
  1.  To  separate;  to  distinguish. 
 
  Averroes  secerns  a  sense  of  titillation,  and  a  sense 
  of  hunger  and  thirst.  --Sir  W. 
  Hamilton. 
 
  2.  (Physiol.)  To  secrete;  as  mucus  secerned  in  the  nose. 
  --Arbuthnot. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  secern 
  v  :  mark  as  different;  "We  distinguish  several  kinds  of  maple" 
  [syn:  {distinguish},  {separate},  {differentiate},  {secernate}, 
  {severalize},  {tell},  {tell  apart}] 




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