Both Uses of
secrete
in
Jane Eyre
- As to her money, she first secreted it in odd corners, wrapped in a rag or an old curl-paper; but some of these hoards having been discovered by the housemaid, Eliza, fearful of one day losing her valued treasure, consented to intrust it to her mother, at a usurious rate of interest — fifty or sixty per cent.; which interest she exacted every quarter, keeping her accounts in a little book with anxious accuracy.†
p. 36.8 *
- The lunatic is both cunning and malignant; she has never failed to take advantage of her guardian's temporary lapses; once to secrete the knife with which she stabbed her brother, and twice to possess herself of the key of her cell, and issue therefrom in the night-time.†
p. 357.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(secrete as in: secrete digestive juices) produce and discharge small amounts of a substance -- especially from biological glands
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, secrete can mean to hide something carefully.