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o man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak. South. Cloak bag, a bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau. Shak.

In a concealed manner.

The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything. To take heed of their dissembings and cloakings. Strype.

A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.

To take off a cloak from; to uncloak. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To remove a cloak or cover from; to deprive of a cloak or cover; to unmask; to reveal.

A kind of cloak or surtout. [Obs.] Johnson. Let the looped bavaroy the fop embrace. Gay.

A coarse garnment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.

ng from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak.

A long cloak or overcoat, especially one with a hood.

A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.

A woman's short cloak with a hood. Where's your cardinal! Make haste. Lloyd.

sus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine.

A loose and flowing outer garment, worn by the ancient Greeks; a kind of cloak.

A sleeveless cloak, cut in circular form.

See Cloak. [Obs.]

An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, whereit is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions. Piers plowman. A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes. Bp. Burnet.…

To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And with the majesty of darkness round Covers his throune. Milton. All that beauty than doth cover thee. Shak.

To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions. All God's angels come to us disguised. Lowell.