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Definitions of secrete
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To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Webster Dictionary DB
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To hide or conceal; in physiology, to separate from the blood and make into & new substance; as, the liver secretes bile. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.
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To put apart or make secret: to hide: to conceal: to produce from the circulating fluids, as the blood in animals, the sap in vegetables. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.
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To hide; conceal; separate from the blood, sap, &c. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.
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To conceal; hide. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.
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To separate, as a secretion. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.
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generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids; "secrete digestive juices"; "release a hormone into the blood stream" Wordnet Dictionary DB
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To hide; to conceal; to retire from notice; to abscond; to separate from the blood; to separate from the sap. See Secern. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.
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To conceal; to remove from observation, or from the knowledge of others; in animals, to separate or produce from the blood, or its constituents, substances different from the blood itself; in plants, to separate substances from the sap. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.
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Secretion. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.
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Usage examples for secrete
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For
instance,
if
the
officer
of
a
Government
vessel,
with
the
most
full
and
complete
commission,
such
as
my
friend
Commodore
Stringham
had,
should
invade
a
ship
at
sea,
and
should,
under
pretence
of
capture,
take
jewels
and
secrete
them,
not
bringing
them
in
for
adjudication,
he
would
be
a
pirate,
because,
though
he
held
a
commission,
he
did
the
act
animo
furandi,-
did
it
out
of
the
jurisdiction
of
any
particular
country,-
did
it
against
the
great
principles
of
civilization
and
humanity.
– Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. Warburton
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And
as
permission
must
be
got
by
those
in
pursuit
of
him,
from
the
authorities
of
the
island
to
land
and
take
him,
he
thus
gains
time
to
secrete
himself.
– The Pirates Own Book by Charles Ellms
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