Secreted (imp. & p. p.) of Secrete
Secreting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Secrete
Secrete (v. t.) To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.
Secrete (v. t.) To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion.
Secretion (n.) The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.
Secretion (n.) 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 other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions.
Secretion (n.) Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice.
Secretist (n.) A dealer in secrets.
Secretitious (a.) Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors.
Secretive (a.) Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition.
Secretiveness (n.) The quality of being secretive; disposition or tendency to conceal.
Secretiveness (n.) The faculty or propensity which impels to reserve, secrecy, or concealment.
Secretly (adv.) In a secret manner.
Secretness (n.) The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed.
Secretness (n.) Secretiveness; concealment.
Secrete-metory (a.) Causing secretion; -- said of nerves which go to glands and influence secretion.
Secretory (a.) Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves.
Secretory (n.) A secretory vessel; a secernent.
Sect (n.) A cutting; a scion.
Sect (n.) Those following a particular leader or authority, or attached to a certain opinion; a company or set having a common belief or allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in society and the state, an order, rank, class, or party.
Sectant (n.) One of the portions of space bounded by the three coordinate planes. Specif. (Crystallog.), one of the parts of a crystal into which it is divided by the axial planes.
Sectarian (n.) Pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as, sectarian principles or prejudices.
Sectarian (n.) One of a sect; a member or adherent of a special school, denomination, or religious or philosophical party; one of a party in religion which has separated itself from established church, or which holds tenets different from those of the prevailing denomination in a state.
Sectarianism (n.) The quality or character of a sectarian; devotion to the interests of a party; excess of partisan or denominational zeal; adherence to a separate church organization.
Sectarianize (v. t.) To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.
Sectarism (n.) Sectarianism.
Sectarist (n.) A sectary.
Sectaries (pl. ) of Sectary
Sectary (n.) A sectarian; a member or adherent of a sect; a follower or disciple of some particular teacher in philosophy or religion; one who separates from an established church; a dissenter.
Sectator (n.) A follower; a disciple; an adherent to a sect.
Sectile (a.) Capable of being cut; specifically (Min.), capable of being severed by the knife with a smooth cut; -- said of minerals.
Sectility (n.) The state or quality of being sectile.
Section (n.) The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
Section (n.) A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
Section (n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division.
Section (n.) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct.
Section (n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.
Section (n.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.
Section (n.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.
Section (n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
Section (n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.
Sectional (a.) Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.
Sectional (a.) Consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into sections; as, a sectional steam boiler.
Sectionalism (n.) A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
Sectionality (n.) The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
Sectionalize (v. t.) To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests.
Sectionally (adv.) In a sectional manner.
Sectionize (v. t.) To form into sections.
Sectism (n.) Devotion to a sect.
Sectist (n.) One devoted to a sect; a soetary.
Sectiuncle (n.) A little or petty sect.
Sector (n.) A part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc.
Sector (n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint, each arm marked with several scales, as of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale.
Sector (n.) An astronomical instrument, the limb of which embraces a small portion only of a circle, used for measuring differences of declination too great for the compass of a micrometer. When it is used for measuring zenith distances of stars, it is called a zenith sector.
Sectoral (a.) Of or pertaining to a sector; as, a sectoral circle.
Sectorial (a.) Adapted for cutting.
Sectorial (n.) A sectorial, or carnassial, tooth.
Secular (a.) Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
Secular (a.) Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe.
Secular (a.) Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.
Secular (a.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest.
Secular (a.) Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
Secular (n.) A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
Secular (n.) A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
Secular (n.) A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
Secularism (n.) The state or quality of being secular; a secular spirit; secularity.
Secularism (n.) The tenets or principles of the secularists.
Secularist (n.) One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.
Secularity (n.) Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness.
Secularization (n.) The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property.
Secularized (imp. & p. p.) of Secularize
Secularizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Secularize
Secularize (v. t.) To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk.
Secularize (v. t.) To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property.
Secularize (v. t.) To make worldly or unspiritual.
Secularly (adv.) In a secular or worldly manner.
Secularness (n.) The quality or state of being secular; worldliness; worldly-minded-ness.
Secund (a.) Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk.
Secundate (v. t.) To make prosperous.
Secundation (n.) Prosperity.
Secundine (n.) The second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine.
Secundine (n.) The afterbirth, or placenta and membranes; -- generally used in the plural.
Secundo-geniture (n.) A right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property or possession so inherited.
Securable (a.) That may be secured.
Secure (a.) Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.
Secure (a.) Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense.
Secure (a.) Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; -- commonly with of; as, secure of a welcome.
Secure (a.) Net exposed to danger; safe; -- applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from.
Secured (imp. & p. p.) of Secure
Securing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Secure
Secure (v. t.) To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
Secure (v. t.) To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; -- frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage.
Secure (v. t.) To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping; as, to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship.
Secure (v. t.) To get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to acquire certainly; as, to secure an estate.
Securely (adv.) In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger; safely.
Securement (n.) The act of securing; protection.
Secureness (n.) The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
Securer (n.) One who, or that which, secures.
Securifera (n. pl.) The Serrifera.
Securiform (a.) Having the form of an ax hatchet.