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Physiology. To separate from the blood; to secrete, adj. Now rare.
Of a gland: To secrete. Of a material substance: To give off or emit from itself. ? Obsolete.
transitive. To produce by means of secretion.
transitive. To secrete (a liquid, etc.) again. (In quot. 1817 in extended use.)