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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Secerned

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Secerning

[L.

secernere

. See

To separate; to distinguish.

Averroes

secerns

a sense of titillation, and a sense of hunger and thirst.

Sir W. Hamilton.

(Physiol.)

To secrete;

as, mucus

secerned

in the nose

Arbuthnot.

Verb.

[L. secerno; se and cerno, to separate.] In the animal economy, to secrete.

The mucus secerned in the nose--is a laudable humor. Arbuthnot.