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Unknown; undiscovered. [Obs.] Ignorant concealment. Shak. Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed Shak.

To conceal, as in bushes; to hide. [Obs.] Shelton.

To cover, as with a mask; to disguise or conceal. [R.] Shak.

Importance; significance; consequence; that which is important. [Obs.] Shak. "Careful to conceal importancies." Fuller.

confined. Included stamens (Bot.), such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.

To bring into doubt; to cause to be doubted. [Obs.] To conceal, or indubitate, his exigency. Sir T. Browne.

That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.

Masked; hence, concealed; obscure; -- applied in medicine to doubtful cases of some diseases; as, larvate pneumonis; larvate epilepsy.

at length grow. Latent heat (Physics), that quantity of heat which disappears or becomes concealed in a body while producing some change in it other than rise of temperature, as fusion, evaporation, or expansion, the quantity being constant for each particular body and for each species of change. -- Latent period. (a…

In a secret or concealed manner; invisibly.

A concealed hiding place; a burrow; a lair; a hole.

Lying hid; concealed; latent. [R.]

A lying in concealment; hiding. [Obs.]

To conceal. [Obs.] Ray.

One who lies down; one who rests or remains, as in concealment. There were liers in a ambush against him. Josh. viii. 14.

To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason.

etermine an event, or make a decision, by drawing one thing from a number whose marks are concealed from the drawer. -- To pay scot and lot, to pay taxes according to one's ability. See Scot.

worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope. [The] children are clothed with mantles of satin. Bacon. The green mantle of the standing pool. Shak. Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree. Burns.

To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor. They must all be masked and vizarded. Shak.

Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise. That masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome. De Quincey.