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To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun.

A species of large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk.

Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh. [Local, Eng.]

hich it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.

To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood. [Obs.] In the Arabian woods embossed. Milton.

To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury. Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. Spenser.

To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush. [Obs.] Shelton.

To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess. "Do but encave yourself." Shak.

To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal. She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras. Shak.

To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern. Donne.

Carbon disulphide; -- so called from certain red compounds which it produces in combination with other substances.

iops martial (Old Chem.), black oxide of iron. -- Ethiops mineral (Old Chem.), black sulphide of mercury, obtained by triturating mercury with sulphur. -- Ethiops per se (Old Chem.), mercury in finely divided state, having the appearance of a dark powder, obtained by shaking it up or by exposure to the air.…

trical ethylene, CH2.CH2. Its compounds are derived from aldehyde. Formerly called also ethidene.

A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides. Raymond.

ypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry. False face must hide what the false heart doth know. Shak.

A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell. We are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are greasy. Shak.

A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. [Obs.] To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose. Mortimer.

Copper sulphide, used to color glass. Hebert.

Splendor; brilliancy; luster; hence, a star. Stars, hide your fires.Shak. As in a zodiac representing the heavenly fires.Milton.

To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.