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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
adv
1: in secrecy; not openly; "met secretly to discuss the invasion plans"; "the children secretly went to the movies when they were supposed to be at the library"; "they arranged to meet in secret" [syn: secretly, in secret, on the Q.T., on the QT]
Merriam Webster's
phrasal in a private place or manner
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
2. A thing not discovered; what is unknown or unexplained; a mystery. All secrets of the deep, all nature's works. --Milton 3. pl. The parts which modesty and propriety require to be concealed; the genital organs. In secret, in a private place; in privacy or secrecy; in a state or place not seen; privately. Bread eaten in secret is pleasant. --Prov. ix. 17.
