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 state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.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.