Secrete /(?)/

Se·crete

Secrete

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Secreted; p. pr. & vb. n. Secreting

  1. To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.
  2. To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. (Physiol.)
    Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not know.
    — Carpenter.