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secrete


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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}.] 
  1.  To  deposit  in  a  place  of  hiding;  to  hide;  to  conceal;  as 
  to  secrete  stolen  goods;  to  secrete  one's  self 
 
  2.  (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  known  --Carpenter. 
 
  Syn:  To  conceal;  hide.  See  {Conceal}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  secrete 
  v  :  generate  and  separate  from  cells  or  bodily  fluids;  "secrete 
  digestive  juices"  [syn:  {release}] 




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