Both Uses of
transpire
in
Moby Dick
- Nevertheless, so potent an influence did this thing have on those seamen in the Pequod who came to the full knowledge of it, and by such a strange delicacy, to call it so, were they governed in this matter, that they kept the secret among themselves so that it never transpired abaft the Pequod's main-mast.†
Chpt 52-54 *transpired = happened; or became known
- So that, through their zeal for him, they had all conspired, so far as in them lay, to muffle up the knowledge of this thing from others; and hence it was, that not till a considerable interval had elapsed, did it transpire upon the Pequod's decks.†
Chpt 106-108
Definitions:
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(1)
(transpire) to happen; or to become known
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Biology: transpire means to pass water vapor through tissue