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Your husband's coming, woman, to search for Bees wax is the ground of all searcloth salves. a gentleman that is here now in the house. Shak.

Mortimer, We in vain searcb for that constitution with- SE'ASON. n. s. (saison, French.] in a fly, upon which depend those powers we 1. One of the four parts of the year, spring, observe in them.

Locke. SEARCH. n. s. (from the verb.]

summer, autumi, winter.

The fairest flowers o'th' season 1. Inquiry by looking into every suspected Are cur cat nations and streak'd giliy flowers. place.

Sbakspeare. The orb he roam'd

Then summer, autumn, winter, did appear; With narrow searcb, and with inspection deep. And spring was but a season of the year. Dryd,

Milton. We saw, in six days travelling, the several 2. Examination.

seasons of the year in their beauty. Addison, The mind sets itself on work in search of 2. A time, as distinguished from others. some hidden idea, and turns the eye of the soul He's noble, wise, judicious, and best knows upon it. Locke. The fits o' th' season.

Sbaksture. 3. Inquiry ; act of seeking ; with of, for, The season, prime for sweetest scents and iirs. or after.

Miros. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in 3. A fit time ; an opportune concurrence. two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere

At season fit let her with thee partake. VIi!, you find them, and when you have them they

All business should be done betimes; and are not worth the search.

Sbakspeare.

there's as little trouble of doing it in season ino, Who great in search of God and nature grow,

as out of season.

L'Estrana They best the wise Creator's praise declare. Dry.

For active sports, for pleasing rest,
Now mourn thy fatal search:

This is the time to be possest;
It is not safe to have too quick a sense. Dryden.

The best is but in season best. Dryden. By the philosophical use of words, I mean such I would indulge the gladness of my heart ! an use as conveys the precise notions of things, Let us retire: her grief is out of sel’in. Pbilipr. which the mind may be satistied with in its search There is no season to which such toonigars as after knowledge. Locke, these are more suitable.

Atteroury. The parents, after a long search for the boy, The season when to come, and when to go, gave him for drowned in a canal. Addison. To sing, or cease to sing, we never know. Hope.

This common practice carries the heart aside 4. A time not very long. from all that is honest in our search after truth. We'll slip you for a season, but our jealousy Watts, Does yet depend.

Sbakspeare. 4. Quest; pursuit.

5. [from the verb.] That which gives a , I zealous love should go in search of virtue, high relish. Where should he find it purer than in Blanch? You lack the season of all natures, sleep. Shak.

Sbakspeare. Stay him from his intendment, or brook such To Se'ason. v. a. (assaisonner, Prench.) disgrace well as he shall run into; in that it is a

1. To mix with food any thing that gives thing of his own search, and altogether against a high relish. my will.

Shakspeare. Every oblation of thy meat-offering shalt thou Nor did my search of liberty begin

season with salt.

Leviticus. Till my black hairs were chang'd upon my chin. They seasoned every sacrifice, whereof a

a greater Dryden. part was eaten by the priests. Brown. SEARCHER. n. s. (from search.]

For breakfast and supper, milk and milk-por1. Examiner ; trier.

tage are very fit for children; only let them noc The Agarenes that seek wisdom upon earth,

be seasoned with sugar.

Locke. the authors of fables, and searchers out of un

The wise contriver, derstanding.

Bar.

To keep the waters from corruption free, The searbers found a marvellous difference

Mixt them with salt, and season'd all the sea. between the Anakins and themselves. Raleigh.

Blackmore. Religion has given us a more just idea of ihe 2. To give a relish to; to recommend by divine nature: he whom we appeal to is truth something mingled. itself, the great searcher of hearts, who will not You season still with sports your serious hours; let fraud go unpunished, or hold him guiltless For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours. chat taketh his name in vain. Addison.

Dryden. 2. Seeker; inquirer.

The proper use of wit is to season conversaIn vain we lift up our presumptuous eyes

tion, to represent what is praiseworthy to the To what our Maker to their ken denies:

greatest advantage, and to expose the vices and The searcber follows fast; the object flies. Prior.

follies of men.

Tillotsor, Avoid the man who practises any thing unbe- 3. To qualify by admixture of another incoming a free and open searcber after sruth.

gredient. Watts.

Mercy is above this scepter'd sway ; 3. Officer in London appointed to examine It is an attribute to God himself;

the bodies of the dead, and report the And earthly pow'r does then shew likest God's, cause of death.

When mercy seasons justice.

Sbakspeare. The searcbers, who are ancient matrons sworn Season your admiration but a while, to their office, repair to the place where the dead

With an attentive ear, till I deliver corps lies, and by view of the same, and by other

This marvel to you.

Sbakspears. inquiries, examine by what disease the corps died. 4. To imbue ; to tinge or taint.

Graunt.

Whatever thing SE’ARCLOTH. n. s. [farclað, Sax. from

Thescythe of time mows down, devour unspar'd,

Till I, in man residing, through the race san, pain, and clad, a plaster ; so that

His thoughts, his looks, words, actions, all infect, cereclotb, as it is now written, from cera,

And season him thy last and sweetest prey. Milt. wax, seems to be wrong.) A plaster; a Secure their religion, season their younger large plaster.

years with prudent and pious principles. Tajor.

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Sin, taken into the soul, is like a liquor poured 1. A chair, bench, or any thing on whick into a vessel ; so much of it as it fills, it also sea

one may sit. sons: the touch and tincture go together. South.

The sons of light s. To fit for any use by time or habit ; to Hasted, resorting to the summons high, mature.

And took their seats.

Miltene The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, The lady of the leaf ordain'd a feast, When neither is attended ; and, I think,

And made the lady of the flow'r her guest ; The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When, lo, a bow'r ascended on the plain, When ev'ry goose is cackling, would be thought With sudden seats ordain'd, and large for either No better a musician than the wren:

train.

Dryden, How many things by season season'd are

2. Chair of state ; throne ; post of authoTo their right praise and true perfection! Shake Who in want a hollow friend doch try,

rity ; tribunal. Directly seasons him his enemy. Sbakspeare.

With due observance of thy goodly seat, We charge you, that you have contriv'd to take Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall supply From Rome all season'd office, and to wind The latest words.

Sbakspearbe Yourself unto a power tyrannical. Sbakspeare.

Thus we debase The archers of his guard shot two arrows, The nature of our seats, and make the rabble every man together, against an inch board of Call orir cares fears.

Sbakspeare. well seasoned timber.

Heyward.

Whatsoever be the manner of the world's end, His pl nteous stores do season'd timber send; most certain it is an end it shall have, and as cerThither the brawny carpenters repair. Dryden.

tain that then we shall appear before the judge A man shouid harden and season himself be- ment seat of Christ, that every man may receive yond the degree of cold wherein he lives. Addis. according to that which he hath done in his body, TO SEASON. v.n. To become mature; to

whether it be good or evil. Hakewill. grow fit for any purpose.

3. Mansion ; residence ; dwelling; abode. Carpenters rough plane boards for Acoring, It were enough in reason to succour with that they may set thein by to season.

Moxon., victuals, and other helps, a vast multitude, come SE'ASONAB! E adj. (saison, Fr.] Oppor- pelled by necessity to seek a new seat, or to die

tune; happening or done at a proper rect them unto a country able to receive them. time ; proper as to time.

Raleigh. Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction,

O earth, how like to heav'n! if not preferr'd as clouds of rain in the time of drought. Ecclus.

Most justly, seat worthier of gods, as built . If ever it was seasonable to preach courage in

With second thoughts, reforming what was old.

Milton the despised abused cause of Christ, it is now,

In Alba he shall fix his royal seat ; when his truths are reformed into nothing, when the hands and hearts of his faithful ministers are

And, born a king, a race of kings beget. Dred. weakened.

Souib.

Has winter caus'd thee, friend, to change thy SE'ASONABLENESS. n. s. [from season

seat,

And seek in Sabine air a warm retreat? Dryd. able.] Opportuneness of time ; pro- The promis'd seat of empire shall again priety with regard to time.

Cover the mountain, and command the plain. A British freeholder would very ill discharge

Priora his part, if he did not acknowledge the excel- 4. Situation ; site. lency and seasonableness of those laws by which

It followeth now that we find out the seat of his country has been recovered out of its confusions.

Addison.
Eden; for in it was Paradise by God planted.

Raleigh. SE'ASONABLY, adv. [from seasonable.]

A church by Strand-bridge, and two bishops Properly with respect to time.

houses, were pulled down to make a scat for his This is that to which I would most earnestly, new building

Hayward. most seasonably, advise you all. Spratt. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, SE'ASONER. n. s. (from To season.] He committeth himself to prison.

Bacon. who seasons or gives a relish to any

The fittest and the easiest to be drawn

To our society, and to aid the war, thing.

The rather for their seat, being next borderers SEASONING. N. s. [from season.] That

On Italy.

Ben Jonson. which is added to any thing to give it a To SEAT. v. a. (from the noun.] relish,

1. To place on seats; to cause to sit down. Breads we have of several grains, with divers

The guests were no sooner seated but they kinds of leavenings and seasonings; so that some entered into a warm debate. Arbuthnet. do extremely move appetites, and some do nou

2. To place in a post of authority, or place rish so as divers do live of them alone. Bacon.

of distinction. Some abound with words, without any seasoning or taste of matter.

Ben Jonson.

Thus high was king Richard scated. Shaksp. A foundation of good sense, and a cultivation

Not Babylon, of learning, are required to give a seasoning to re

Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence tirement, and make us taste the blessing. Dryd.

Equall'd in all their glories, to inshrine
Political speculations are of so dry and austere

Belus or Serapis their gods, or seat
Their kings.

Milton, a nature, that they will not go down with the publick without frequent seasonings. Addison.

A spirit of envy or opposition makes mankind The publick accept a paper which has in it uneasy to see others of the same species seated none of those seasonings that recommend the

above them in a sort of perfection. Pope. writings which are in vogue among us. Spectator. 3. To fix.in any particular place or situaMany vegetable substances are used by man

tion; to settle. kind as seasonings, which abound with a highly

Should one family or one thousand hold posexalted aromatick oil; as thyme and savory. session of all the southern undiscovered conti

Arbuthnot.

nent, because they had seated themselves in Nova SEAT. n. s. (sedes, Lat. sett, old German. Guiana ?

Raleigh. Skinner.]

By no means build too near a great neighbour, which were, in truth, to be as unfortunately seated cundus, from sequor, the Saxons term on the earth as Mercury is in the heavens; for

oder, or aftena.) the most part ever in combustion, or obscurity,

1. The next in order to the first ; the orunder brighter beams than his own. Wotton.

dinal of two. 4. To fix; to place firm.

Sunk were their hearts with horror of the Why do I yield to that suggestion,

crime, Whose horrid image doth uptix my hair,

Nor needed to be warn'd a second time, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,

But bore each other back.

Sbakspeare. Against the use of nature ?

Dryden. From their foundations loosening to and fro,

2. Next in value or diggity: inferiour. They pluck'd the seated hills. Milton. I shall not speak superlatively of them, lest I

be suspected of partiality ; but this I may truly SE'AWARD. adv. [sea and peand, Sax.] say, they are second to none in the christian Towards the sea.

world.

Bacar. The rock rush'd seaward with impetuous roar,

None I know Ingulf'd, and to th' abyss the boaster bore Pope. Second to me, or like; equal much less Milton. SE'CANT, n. s. (secans, Lat. secante, Fr.]

My eyes are still the same; each glance, each

grace, In geometry, the right line drawn from

Keep their first lustre, and maintain their place, the centre of a circle, cutting and meet.

Not second yet to any other face. Dryden. ing with another line, called the tan- Not these huge bolts, by which the giants slain gent, without it.

Dict. Lay overthrown on the Phlegrean plain;

"T'was of a lesser mould and lighter weight; TO SECE’DE. v. n. (secedo, Latin.] To

Addisor withdraw from fellowship in any affair.

They call it thunder of a second rate.

By a sad train of miseries alone SECE’DER. n. s. [from secede.] One who

Distinguish'd long, and second now to none. Pope. discovers his disapprobation of any pro- Persons of second rate merit in their own counceedings by withdrawing himself.

try, like birds of passage, thrive here, and fly off TO SECE'rn. v. a. (secerno, Lat.] To se

when their employments are at an end. Swift parate finer from grosser matter ; to SE'COND-HAND. n. s. Possession received make the separation of substances in

from the first possessor. the body.

SE'COND-HAND is sometimes used adjecBirds are better meat than beasts, because tively. Not original ; not primary. their flesh doth assimilate more finely, and sem Some men build so much upon authorities, they øernetb more subtilly.

Bacon.

have but a second-band or implicit knowledge. The pituite or mucus secerned in the nose

Lecke. and windpipe is not an excrementitious but a

They are too proud to cringe to second-band laudable humour, necessary for defending those favourites in a great family. Swift to Gay. parts, from which it is secerned, from excoria

At SECOND-HAND.adv. In imitation; in tions.

Arbuthnot. SECE'SSION. n. s. [secessio, Latin.]

the second place of order; by transmis. 1. The act of departing.

sion ; not primarily; not originally. The accession of bodies upon, or secession

They pelted them with satires and epigrams, thereof from, the earth's surface, perturb not

which perhaps had been taken up at first only

to make their court, and at second-band to fatter the equilibration of either hemisphere. Brown.

those who had flattered their king. 2. The act of withdrawing from councils

Temple:

In imitation of preachers at second-hand, I shall or actions.

transcribe from Bruyere a piece of raillery. SE'CLE. n. s. (siecle, Fr. seculum, Latin.]

Tatler. A century. Not in use.

Spurious virtue in a maid; Of a man's age, part he lives in his father's A virtue but at second-band.

Swift. lifetime, and part after his son's birth; and ŞE'COND. n. s. [second, Fr. from the adthereupon it is wont to be said that three ge

jective.] nerations make one secle, or hundred years, in the genealogies.

Hummond. 1. One who accompanies another in a TO SECLU'DE. v. a. (secludo, Lat.] To duel, to direct or defend him.

Their seconds minister an oath, confine from; to shut up apart; to ex.

Which was indifferent to thein boch, clude.

That on their knightly faith and troth
None is secluded from that function, of any
degree, state, or calling.

No magick them supplied;
Wbitgi.

And sought them that they had no charms,
Some parts of knowledge God has thought fit

Wherewith to work each other's harms, to seclude from us; to fence them not only, as

But came with simple open arms he did the interdicted tree, by combination, but

To have their causes tried. Drayton. with difficulties and impossibilities. Decay of Piety. Their first encounters were very furious, till The number of birds described may be near

after some top and bloodshed they were parted five hundred, and of fishes, secluding shell-fish, as

by the seconds.

ddison. many; but if the shell-fish be taken in, more

Personal brawls come in as seconds to finish than six times the number.

Ray.
the dispute of opinion.

Watts.
Inclose your tender plants in your conserva-

2. One who supports or maintains; a suptory, secluding all entrance of cold. Evelyn.

Let eastern tyrants from the light of heaven porter; a maintainer. Seclude their bosom slaves.

Tbomson.

He propounded the duke as a main cause of

divers infirmities in the state, being sure enough SE'COND. adj. (second, Fr. secundus, Lat.

of seconds after the first onset.

l'otton. It is observable, that the English have

Courage, when it is only a second to injustice, no ordinal of two; as the Latins, and and talis on without provocation, is a disadvana the nations' deriving from them, have tage to a character.

Collier, none of duo. What the Latins call se- 3. A SECOND Minute, the second division of an hour by sixty; the sixtieth part of It is primarily generated out of the effusiori of a minnte.

melancholick blood, or secondarily out of the Four flames of an equal magnitude will be kept

dregs and remainder of a phlegmonous or æde

matick tumour. alive the space of sixteen second minutes, though

Hervey. one of these temes alore, in the same vessel, SE'CONDARINESS. n. s. [from secondary.] will not last above twenty-five or at most thirty

The state of being secondary: seconds.

Wilkins. That which is peculiar and discriminative must Sounds move above 1140 English feet in a be taken from the primariness and secondariness secord minute of time, and in seven or eight of the perception.

Norris. m.inutes of time about in English miles. Locke. SE'CONDARY. adi. (secondarius, Lat.] To S'KONL, V. a. [seconder, Fr. secundo, 1. Not primary; not of the first intention. Lat, from the noun.)

Two are the radical differences: the secondary 1. To support; to forward ; to assist ; to differences are as four.

Bacon. come in after the act as a maintainer. 2. Succeeding to the first ; subordinate. The authors of the former opinion were pre

Wheresoever there is moral right on the one sentiy seconded by other wittier and better learn- hand, no secondary right can discharge it. ed, who bring loth that the form of church

L'Estrange. polity, which they sought to bring in, should be Gravitation is the powerful cement which holds otherwise than in the highest degree accounted together this magnificent structure of the world, cf, took first an exception against the difference

which stretcheth the north over the empty between church polity and matters of necessity

space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing, to to salvation.

Hooker.

transfer the words of Job from the first and real Though we here fall down, cause to the secondary.

Bentley. We have supplies to second our atiempt ; 3. Not of the first order or rate. If they miscarry, theirs shall second them. Sbaks. If the system had been fortuitously formed by Ito be the power of Israel's God

the convening matter of a chaos, how is it conAvow, and challenge Dagon to the test,

ceivable that all the planets, both primary and Of'ring to combat thee, his champion bold, secondary, should revolve the same way, from With th' utmost of his godhead seconded. Milt. the west to the east, and that in the same plane? Familiar Ovid tender thoughts inspires,

Bentdey. And nature seconds all his soft desires. Roscom, 4. Acting by transmission or deputation.

If in company you offer something for a jest, That we were form'd then, say'st thou, and and nobody seconds you in your laughter, you

the work may condeinn their taste; but in the mean time Of secondary hands, by task transferr'd you make a very indifferent figure. Stift. From father to his son?

Milton. In human works, tho’labour'd on with pain, As in a watch's fine machine, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; Though many artful springs are seen, In God's, one single can its ends produce,

The added movements which declare Yet seryes to secund too some other use. Pope. How full the moon, how old the year, 2. To follow in the next place.

Derive their secondary pow'r
You some permit

From that which simply points the hour. Prior. To second ills with ills.

Sbakspeare, s. A secondary fever is that which arises Having formerly discoursed of a marítimal

after a crisis, or the discharge of some voyage, I think it not impertinent to second the

morbid matter, as after the declension of same with some necessary relations concerning the royal navy.

Raleigb.

the smallpox or measles. Quincy. He saw his guileful act

SE'CONDARY. n. s. (from the adjective.] By Eve, though all unweeting, seconded

A delegate; a deputy. Upon her husband.

Milion.

SE'CONDLY. adv. [from second.] In the 'Sin is seconded with sin; and a man seldom comnits one sin to please, but he commits an

second place. other to defend himself.

South,
First, she hath disobeyed the law; and secondly,

Ecclesiasticus. SECOND Sight. n. s. The power of seeing

trespassed against her husband.

First, metals are more durable than plants; and things future, or things distant : sup

secondly, they are more solid and hard. Bacon, posed inherent in some of the Scottish The house of commons in Ireland, and, secondo islanders.

ly, the privy council, addressed his majesty against As he was going out to steal a sheep, he was these half-pence.

Swift. seized with a fit of second sigbt: the face of the SE'COND-RATE. n. s. [second and rate.) country presented him with a wide prospect of

1. The second order in dignity or value. new scenes, which he had never seen before.

They call it thunder of the second-rate. Addisor. Addison.

2. [It is sometimes used adjectively.] Of SECOND sighted. adj. (from second sight.]

the second order: a colloquial licence. Having the second sight.

He was not then a second-rale champion, as Sawney was descended of an ancient family,

they would have him, who think fortitude the renowned for their skill in prognosticks: most of first virtue in a hero.

Dryden. his ancestors were second sighted, and his mother

SE'CRECY. N. s. [from secret.] but narrowly escaped for a witch. Addison.

1. Privacy; state of being hidden; conSE'CONDARTLY. adv. (from secondary.] cealment.

In the second degree ; in the second That's not suddenly to be perform'd,
order; not primarily; not originally; But with advice and silent secrecy. Shakspeare.
not in the first intention.

The lady Anne,
These atoms make the wind primarily tend

Whom the king hath in secrecy long married, downwards, though other accidental causes im

This day was view'd in open as his

In Nature's book of infinite secrecy pelit secondarily to a sloping motion. Digby. He coniesses that temples are erected, and

A little can I read.

Sbakspeare. festivals kept, to the honour of saints, at least 2. Solitude; retirement; not exposure to secundarily.

Stilling fleet. view,

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Thou in thy secrecy, although alone,

the council, for the secreting of their consultaBest with thyself accompany'd, seek'st not tions.

Bacon. Social communication.

Milon. SE'CRETARISHIP. n. s. (secretaire, Fr. There is no such thing as perfect secrecy, to encourage a rational mind to the perpetration of SE'CRETARY. n. s. [secretaire, Fr. secre

from secretary.] The office of a secretary. any base action; for a man must first extinguish and put out the great light within him, his con

tarius, low Latin.) One intrusted with science; he must get away from himself, and the management of business; one who shake off the thousand witnesses which he al- writes for another. ways carries about him, before he can be alone. Call Gardiner to me, my new secretary. Sbak.

Soutb. That which is most of all profitable is ac. 3. Forbearance of discovery.

quaintance with the secretaries, and employed It is not with publick as with private prayer ; men, of ambassadors.

Bacon. in this rather secrecy is commanded than outward Cottington was secretary to the prince. Clarend. shew; whereas that, being the publick act of a TO SECRETE. v. a. (secretus, Lat.] whole society, requireth accordingly more care to be had of external appearance.

1. To put aside ; to hide. Hooker,

2. [In the animal economy.] To secern; 4. Fidelity to a secret ; taciturnity invio

to separate. late ; close silence.

SECRE'tion. N. s. [from secretus, Lat.) For secrecy no lady closer. Shakspeare. Secrecy and fidelity were their only qualities.

1. That agency in the animal economy

Burnet. that consists in separating the various SE'CRET. adj. (secret, Fr. secretus, Lat.)

fluids of the body. 1. Kept hidden ; not revealed; concealed. 2. The fluid secrcted.

The secret things belong unto the Lord our SECRETI'TIOUS. adj. [from secretus, Lat.) God; but those things which are revealed be- Parted by animal secretion. long unto us.

Deuteronomy. They have a similitude or contrariety to the Be this, or aught

secretitious humours in taste and quality. Floyer. Than this more secret, now design’d, I haste To know.

Milton. SECRETIST. n. s. [from secret.] A dealer 2. Retired ; private ; unseen.

in secrets. Thou open'st wisdom's way,

Some things I have not yet thought fit so plainly And giv'st access, though secret she retire: to reveal; not out of any envious design of having And I perhaps am secret.

Milton.
them buried with me, but that I may

barter with There secret in her sapphire cell

those secretists, that will not part with one secret He with the Nais wont to dwell. Fenton. but in exchange for another.

Boyle. 3. Faithful to a secret entrusted.

SE'CRETLY. udv. [from secret.] Secret Romans, that have spoke the word, 1. Privately ; privily; not openly; not And will not palter.

Sbakspeare publickly; with intention not to be 4. Private ; affording privacy.

known. The secret top

Give him this letter, do it secretly. Shaksp. Of Oreb or of Sinai.

Milton. Now secretly with inward grief ne pind; s. Occult; not apparent.

Now warm resentments to his griefs he join'd. Or sympathy, or some connatural force

Addison, Pow'rful at greatest distance to unite

Some may place their chief satisfaction in give With secret amity things of like kind,

ing secretly what is to be distributed; others, in By secretest conveyance.

Milton. being the open and avowed instruments of make My heart, which by a secret harmony

ing such distributions.

Atterbury. Still moves with thine, join'd in connexion sweet. 2. Latently; so as not to be obvious; not

Milton.

apparently. 6. Privy; obscene.

Those thoughts are not wholly mine; but SE'CRET. n. s. (secret, Fr. secretum, Lat.) either they are secretly in the poet, or may be 1. Something studiously hidden.

fairly deduced from him.

Dryder. Infected minds

SE'CRETNESS. n. s. [from secret.] To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. 1. State of bang hidden.

Sbakspeare.

2. Quality of keeping a secret. There is no secret that they can hide from

I could muster up thee.

Ezekiel,

My giants and my witches too,
We not to explore the secrets ask
Of his eternal empire.

which are vast constancy and secretness. Donne.

Milton. 7. A thing unknown; something not yet SECRETORY. adj. (from secretus, Latin,] discovered.

Performing the office of secretion, or All blest secrets,

animal separation. All you unpublish'd virtues of the earth. Shaks. All the glands are a congeries of vessels comAll secrets of the deep, all Nature's works. plicated together, whereby they give the blood

Milton. time to separate through the capillary vessels The Romans seem not to have known the se

into the secretory, which afterwards exonerate sret of paper credit.

Arbuthnot.
themselves into one duct.

Ray. 3. Privacy ; secrecy; invisible or undis- SECT. n. s. [secte, Fr. secia, Lat. froin covered state.

sectando.] Bread eaten in secret is pleasant. Proverbs. I. A body of men following some particu. In secret, riding through the air she comes. lar master, or united in some settled

Milton. tenets. Often in a bad senise. TO SE'CRET. v. a. (from the noun.] To

We'll wear out, keep private.

In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, Great care is to be used of the clerks of That ebb and flow by th' moon. Sbakspeare.

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