SECRETE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.

2.
v.

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.

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