secondary poles

pl. Poles sometimes found in magnets existing in positions intermediate between the end or true poles. secondary-rocks, s. pl. Geology : *1. All sedimentary and fo iliferous rocks, as distinguished from the primary rocks below [PRIMARY] and the Tertiary alluviums and diluviums above. 2. An extensive series of stratified rocks, having certain characters in common distinguishing them from the primary rocks beneath and the Tertiary above them. Lyell divides the Secondary rocks into the Trias, the Lias, the Oolite, and the Cretaceous; Seeley into the Trias, the Lias, the Pelolithic, the Psammolithic, and the Cretaceous; and Ethe ridge into the Tria ic, the Jura ic, and the Cretaceous. In many places the paleozoic strata had been fractured, contorted, and even thrown into a vertical position before the Secondary rocks began to be deposited. There is a break between the end of the Primary [PALEOZOIC] rocks and the commencement of the Secondary strata. Though most of the latter seem conformable to each other, yet the considerable alterations ever and anon occurring in the character of the fo il remains suggest the existence of breaks not strati graphically visible. Thus there is no visible unconform ability in the Lias, yet only five per cent. of the fo ils pa from the Middle to the Upper Lias. During the deposition of the Secondary rocks the geographical features of the northern hemisphere were again and again modified. From the Lias to the Chalk there seems to have been a series of large tropical islands, drained by considerable rivers, with a vegetation of Cycads, Reeds, and Conifers. Gigantic reptiles were the dominant vertebrates. A great break occurs between the Secondary and the Tertiary. Murchison says that gold is generally absent from Secondary rocks. [MESOZOIC.] secondary-roots, s. pl. [LATERAL-ROOTS.] secondary-stems, s. pl. Bot.: The ramifications of a stem; branches. secondary-strata, s. pl. [SECONDARY-ROCKS.] IMG:content-1144.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1145.png:[blocks in formation] *3. Secrecy. 4. ( Pl.): The secret or private parts; the parts of the body which modesty and propriety require to be concealed. II. Roman Ritual : A prayer or prayers recited by the celebrant in a low tone of voice, audible only to himself, immediately after the Orate , Fra tres. "These words [Per omnia sæcula sæculorum] form the conclusion of the Secret . The priest here elevates his voice at Low Ma , and at High Ma employs a chant in their recitation in order to fix the attention of the people, and to invite them to unite their prayers with his."Rock: Hierurgia , p. 80. secrete (1) Discipline of the secret: [DISCIPLINE, 8. 1 (2) In secret : Secretly; in secrecy or privacy, privately. (Prov. ix. 17.) *secret-false, adj . Faithle in secret; secretly false; treacherous. secret-society, s. A society whose operations are conducted in secret. *se-crět, v . t . [SECRET, a .] To keep secret or private. "Great care is to be used of the clerks of the council for the secreting of their consultations." --Bacon: Advice to Villiers. -age .] se-crět-age (age as Ig), subst . [Eng. secre(t); Furriery : The act or proce of secreting (q. v.). sec-re-tär-i-al, *sec-re-tär-i-an, adj . [Eng. secretary ; -al .] Pertaining or relating to a secretary; befitting a secretary. "The allowance for secretarial a istance."- Pall Mall Gazette. sec-re-tär-I-at, sec-re-tär-i-ate, subst . [Fr. secrétariat .] 1. The office of a secretary; secretaryship. 2. The place or office where a secretary transacts busine , keeps his papers, . sěc-re-tar-, *sec-re-tar-ye, s . [Fr. secrétaire ' from Low Lat. secretarius =a confidential officer from Lat. secret us =secret (q. v.); Sp. & Port. secre tario ; Ital. secret a rio , segretario .] I. Ordinary Language : *1. One who is entrusted with or who keeps secrets; a confidant. "A faithful secretary to her sex's foibles."- Raleigh . 2. A person employed by a public company, an a ociation, or public body, or an individual to attend to correspondence, draw up reports, .; one who transacts another's busine , correspondence, or other matters requiring writing. "Call Gardiner to me, my new secretary." Shakesp.: Henry VIII., ii. 2. 3. A piece of furniture fitted with conveniences for writing and for keeping papers. (In this sense a corrupt. of escritoire.) II. Technically : 1. Polit .: An officer of state, to whom is entrusted the super intendance and management of a particular department of the government; as, the secre tary of state, who has charge of 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, . They are usually members of the cabinet or advisory council of the executive. 2. Print .: A kind of script type, in imitation of engro ing hand, not unlike Ronde (q. v.). 3. Ornith.: The Secretary-bird (q. v.). Secretary of an emba y or legation : The prin cipal a istant of an amba ador or envoy. secretary-bird, s. Ornith.: Serpentarius secretarius, from South Africa, a bird protected by the native and English authorities for the service it renders in destroying venomous serpents, which it kills by blows from its powerful feet and bill, though occasionally the serpent succeeds in inflicting mortal injury on its foe. Layard a erts (Birds of South Africa ) that although this bird can inflict severe wounds with its feet, the legs are so brittle that they will snap if it is suddenly started into a quick run. The Secretary-bird stands about four feet high; upper surface grayish-blue, shaded with reddish-brown on wing coverts; throat white, thighs black tail feathers very long, black at base paling into gray, tipped with white; two long central feathers bluish-gray tipped with black and white. Crest of ten feathers black or gray, tipped with black, arranged in pairs, and erectile at will. From the fancied resemblance of this crest to a pen behind a clerk's ear, the bird derived its specific Latin and popular English name. Secretary-bird. sěc-re-tar-ý-ship, s. [Eng. secretary; -ship.] The office, post, or position of a secretary. sě-crète', v. t. [ Lat.secret us, pa. par. of secerno = to separate, to secern (q. v.).] 1. Ord . Lang .: To conceal, to hide; to remove or keep from the knowledge or observation of others. "A secondary sense which hides and secretes it."-War burton: Divine Legation , bk. vi., § 3. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-1146.png:[blocks in formation] Anat .: A simple membrane, supporting a layer of secreting cells on one of the surfaces while freely ramitied blood-ve els are spread over the other. To increase the secreting surface the membrane may rise into a fold, fringes, or other projection, or, retiring, may form a rece . secreting-glands, s. pl. [GLAND, 8. (4).] secreting-organs, s. pl. Botany: Reservoirs or receptacles for secretions. These are glands, laticiferous ti ue, receptacles, or reservoirs, as the turpentine reservoirs in the Conifere. se-cre-tion, subst. [Fr., from Lat. secret us, pa. par. of secerno.] [SECRETE, v.] 1. Physiol.: A proce in an organized body by which various matters derived from the organism are collected and discharged at particular parts that they may be further employed for special purpose in the system, as the saliva and the gastric juice, or to be simply eliminated as redundant material or waste product, as perspiration and urine. The latter are generally called excretions (q. v.). The chief agents in secretion are the blood and nucleated cells. 2. Botany & Vegetable Physiol .: Any organic but unorganized substance produced in the interior of plants. They are chiefly amylaceous or saccharine, and are deposited in cellular ti ue. 3. The matter secreted, as mucus, perspirable matter, .