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Secreting water; -- applied to certain glands. Dunglison.

The glandular organ in which the material for the web of spiders is secreted.

Hidden; secret. [Obs.] "The arcane part of divine wisdom." Berkeley.

A secret; a mystery; -- generally used in the plural. Inquiries into the arcana of the Godhead. Warburton.

A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.

A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.

One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense.

To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence. Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden.

lly used in South Australia, in which there is such an arrangement for polling votes that secrecy is compulsorily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed and distributed by the government.

To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.

An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange.

One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.

Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman.

A secret enemy. [Obs.] South.

Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; as if finding access by the back stairs. A backstairs influence. Burke. Female caprice and backstairs influence. Trevelyan.

Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.

A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. Blackstone.

The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.

To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known. Willing to serve or betray any government for hire. Macaulay.

ual relation; as, opposition between science and religion. An intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty. Hume.