Index of English words, starting with "se"

(1) - Secretary (n.) The secretary bird.
(2) - Secretary (n.) A piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire.
(3) - Secretary (n.) An officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc.
(4) - Secretary (n.) A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, records, and the like; an official scribe, amanuensis, or writer; one who attends to correspondence, and transacts other business, for an association, a public body, or an individual.
(5) - Secretary (n.) One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.

(1) - Secretaryship (n.) The office, or the term of office, of a secretary.

(1) - Secrete (v. t.) To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion.
(2) - Secrete (v. t.) To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.