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.
• SECRETARIAT; SECRETARIATE
  The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc.
• 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
• 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.