| private secretary | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a secretary entrusted with the personal and confidential matters of a business executive |
| 2. | Compare parliamentary private secretary a civil servant who acts as aide to a minister or senior government official |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |