Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In furriery, same as
secretage .
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- verb US Present participle of
secret . - verb Present participle of
secrete .
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Examples
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Yet in secreting this booty, the saint incurred an excommunication, and perhaps broke his oath.
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And the idea of secreting Charlotte in a Porsche is absurd.
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On another channel, this guy kept talking about someone "secreting" the girl's body in the building.
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On another channel, this guy kept talking about someone "secreting" the girl's body in the building.
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I'm a secretary, so I've been "secreting" (is that what seceretaries do?) for, like, 10 hours today.
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December 16th, in the consistory of St. Paul's bishop Bonner, after laying some trifling accusations to his charge such as secreting powder to make ink, writing some private letters, &c. proceeded to pass the awful sentence upon him, after he and the other bishops had urged him by every inducement to recant.
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The coral insect is a small creature of the sea which has been gifted with the power of "secreting" or depositing a lime-like substance, with which it builds to itself a little cell or habitation.
The Cannibal Islands Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas
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They have assembled different types of genetically engineered cells into synthetic microtissues that can perform functions such as secreting and responding to hormones, promising more complex biological capabilities than a single cell alone could produce.
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They have assembled different types of genetically engineered cells into synthetic microtissues that can perform functions such as secreting and responding to hormones, promising more complex biological capabilities than a single cell alone could produce.
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They have assembled different types of genetically engineered cells into synthetic microtissues that can perform functions such as secreting and responding to hormones, promising more complex biological capabilities than a single cell alone could produce.
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