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In a secret manner.

The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed.

Causing secretion; -- said of nerves which go to glands and influence secretion.

Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. -- n.

A selenide. [Obs.]

Combined with selenium as in a selenide; as, seleniureted hydrogen. [Written also seleniuretted.] [Obsoles.]

See Semifloscule.

Half terete.

Combined or impregnated with silicon. [Obsoles.] Siliciureted hydrogen. (Chem.) Hydrogen silicide. [Obs.]

An umbelliferous plant (Sium, or Pimpinella, Sisarum). It is a native of Asia, but has been long cultivated in Europe for its edible clustered tuberous roots, which are very sweet.

A flexible steel shoe (or one of the plates forming such a shoe), worn with mediæval armor.

A female servant or attendant; specifically, as a term of the theater, a lady's maid, in comedies, who acts the part of an intrigante; a meddlesome, mischievous female servant or young woman.

f spiders, by means of which they spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. The ordinary silk line of the spider is composed of numerous smaller lines jointed after issuing from the spinnerets.

To reach out; to extend; to put forth. And stretch forth his neck long and small. Chaucer. I in conquest stretched mine arm. Shak.

One who, or that which, stretches.

from Stretch, v. Stretching course (Masonry), a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton.

In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time. [Written also stretta.]

ted with, or containing, carbon in less than the normal proportion. [Written also subcarburetted.] [Obsoles.]

Somewhat terete.

Situated under the urethra, or under its orifice.