Hypertext Webster Gateway: "secern"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Secern \Se*cern"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Secerned}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Secerning}.] [L. secernere. See {Secrete}.]
1. To separate; to distinguish.
Averroes secerns a sense of titillation, and a sense
of hunger and thirst. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
2. (Physiol.) To secrete; as, mucus secerned in the nose.
--Arbuthnot.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
secern
v : mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
[syn: {distinguish}, {separate}, {differentiate}, {secernate},
{severalize}, {tell}, {tell apart}]
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