Word Meanings - CONCEALMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known. Wharton. (more info) 1. The act of concealing; the state of being concealed. But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. Shak. Some dear
Additional info about word: CONCEALMENT
Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known. Wharton. (more info) 1. The act of concealing; the state of being concealed. But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. Shak. Some dear cause Will in concealment wrap me up awhile. Shak. 2. A place of hiding; a secret place; a retreat frem observation. The cleft tree Offers its kind concealment to a few. Thomson. 3. A secret; out of the way knowledge. Well read in strange concealments. Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONCEALMENT)
- Delitescence
- Concealment
- hiding
- skulking
- shirking
- Privacy
- Retirement
- secrecy
- solitude
- seclusion
- retreat
- concealment
Related words: (words related to CONCEALMENT)
- SHIRKER
One who shirks. Macaulay. - RETREATFUL
Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman. - RETREATMENT
The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey. - SECRECY
1. The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy. The Lady Anne, Whom the king hath in secrecy long married. Shak. 2. That which is concealed; a secret. Shak. 3. Seclusion; privacy; retirement. - HIDROSIS
Excretion of sweat; perspiration. 2. Excessive perspiration; also, any skin disease characterized by abnormal perspiration. - HIDALGO
A title, denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class. (more info) something; hijo son + algo something, fr. L. - HIDAGE
A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land. - RETIREMENT
1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson. 2. A place of seclusion - HIDING
The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment. There was the hiding of his power. Hab. iii. 4. - SOLITUDE
1. state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness. Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Bacon. O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face Cowper. 2. Remoteness - HIDROTIC
Causing perspiration; diaphoretic or sudorific. - PRIVACY
1. The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion. 2. A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement. Her sacred privacies all open lie. Rowe. 3. Concealment of what is said - HIDDEN
from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious. Hidden fifths or octaves , consecutive fifths or octaves, not sounded, but suggested or implied in the parallel motion of two parts towards a fifth or an octave. Syn. -- Hidden, - SHIRK
1. To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation. You that never heard the call of any vocation, . . . that shirk living from others, but time from Yourselves. Bp. Rainbow. 2. To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying - HIDEOUS
hisdous, F. hideux: cf. OF. hide, hisde, fright; of uncertain origin; cf. OHG. egidi horror, or L. hispidosus, for hispidus rough, bristly, 1. Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks. - HIDDENLY
In a hidden manner. - HIDEBOUND
Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees. Bacon. 3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. Milton. Carlyle. 4. Niggardly; penurious. Quarles. (more info) 1. Having - HID
imp. & p. p. of Hide. See Hidden. - SKULK
To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk. "Want skulks in holes and crevices." W. C. Bryant. Discovered and defeated of your prey, You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked - DELITESCENCE
The sudden disappearance of inflammation. (more info) 1. Concealment; seclusion; retirement. The delitescence of mental activities. Sir W. Hamilton. - GLOCHIDIUM
The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills. - SYLPHID
A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph. "The place of the sylphid queen." J. R. Drake. Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear, Fays, fairies, genii, elves, and demons, hear. Pope. - CHIDESTER
A female scold. - RACHIDIAN
Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian. - ORCHIDEOUS
See ORCHIDACEOUS - XANTHIDE
A compound or derivative of xanthogen. - APHIDOPHAGOUS
Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidæ. - CHIDER
One who chides or quarrels. Shak. - TERSULPHIDE
A trisulphide. - BUSHIDO
The unwritten code of moral principles regulating the actions of the Japanese knighthood, or Samurai; the chivalry of Japan. Unformulated, Bushido was and still is the animating spirit, the motor force of our country. Inazo Nitobé. - COWHIDE
1. The hide of a cow. 2. Leather made of the hide of a cow. 3. A coarse whip made of untanned leather. - ORCHIDOLOGY
The branch of botany which treats of orchids. - DIDELPHID
See DIDELPHIC - OXYSULPHIDE
A ternary compound of oxygen and sulphur. - SESQUISULPHIDE
A sulphide, analogous to a sesquioxide, containing three atoms of sulphur to two of the other ingredient; -- formerly called also sesquisulphuret; as, orpiment, As2S3 is arsenic sesquisulphide.