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A Cretan

Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.

ed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state. Bp. Burnet.

In a concrete manner.

The quality of being concrete.

A decree. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ing a disjunctive or discretive clause; as, "I resign my life, but not my honor," is a discrete proposition.

Separately; disjunctively.

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.

Concrete strengthened by a core or foundation skeleton of iron or steel bars, strips, etc. Floors, columns, piles, water pipes, etc., have been successfully made of it. Called also armored concrete steel, and reënforced concrete.

Not concrete. [R.] L. Andrews.

Not discrete or separated; compact; homogenous. An indiscrete mass of confused matter. Pownall.

Concrete having within its mass a system of strengthening iron or steel supports. = Ferro-concrete.

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

To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to Ant: concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. J. S. Mill.

The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in wa…

us kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number (Math.), one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of any conic section, and bounded by the curve.

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