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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.

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.

A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.

To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion. Udall. And yonder a vile physician blabbing The case of his patient. Tennyson.

A lawless or blackmailing secret society, esp. among Italians. [U. S.]

A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter. Dunglison.

An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus.