SECRETE

secrete. Secrete, v.t. to hide, conceal, separate

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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. 1. To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.
2. 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 know. Carpenter. Syn. — To conceal; hide. See Conceal.