SPage 191
- English Word Secretariat Definition Alt. of Secretariate
- English Word Secretariate Definition The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc.
- English Word Secretaries Definition of Secretary
- English Word Secretary Definition One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.
- English Word Secretary Definition A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, records, and the like; an official scribe, amanuensis, or writer; one who attends to correspondence, and transacts other business, for an association, a public body, or an individual.
- English Word Secretary Definition An officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc.
- English Word Secretary Definition A piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire.
- English Word Secretary Definition The secretary bird.
- English Word Secretaryship Definition The office, or the term of office, of a secretary.
- English Word Secrete Definition To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.
- English Word Secrete Definition To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion.
- English Word Secrete-metory Definition Causing secretion; -- said of nerves which go to glands and influence secretion.
- English Word Secreted Definition of Secrete
- English Word Secreting Definition of Secrete
- English Word Secretion Definition The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.
- English Word Secretion Definition The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions.
- English Word Secretion Definition Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice.
- English Word Secretist Definition A dealer in secrets.
- English Word Secretitious Definition Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors.
- English Word Secretive Definition Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition.