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Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut. xxix. 29.

e detective service of a government. In the United States, in time of peace the bureau of secret service is under the treasury department, and in time of war it aids the war department in securing information concerning the movements of the enemy.

A process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs. Ure.

Of or pertaining to a secretary; befitting a secretary. [R.] Secretarial, diplomatic, or other official training. Carlyle.

The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc.

One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. [R.]

The office, or the term of office, of a secretary.

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

The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.

A dealer in secrets. [Obs.]

Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors. Floyer.

Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition.

The quality of being secretive; disposition or tendency to conceal.

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.

Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.

Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.

A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.