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Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey. Cussans.

the buds will burst in spring. From the egg that soon Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. Milton.

Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised. How covert matters may be best disclosed. Shak. Whether of open war or covert guile. Milton

closure; to uncover. The shells being broken, . . . the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty. Woodward.

That which is disclosed or revealed. Were the disclosures of 1695 forgotten Macaulay.

a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles. It is by lying dormant a long time, or being . . . very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people. Burke.

To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution. Prior.

h produces ova; not male. As patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed. Shak.

The act of imparting, or that which is imparted, communicated, or disclosed. [R.] It beckons you to go away with it, As if it some impartment did desire To you alone. Shak.

To expand; to spread out; to be disclosed; as, the harbor opened to our view.

own, which suggests such a title as controverts the title of the Crown, grounded on facts disclosed in the petition itself. Mozley & W. -- The Petition of Right (Eng. Hist.), the parliamentary declaration of the rights of the people, assented to by Charles I.

antage, or immunity. Privileged communication. (Law) (a) A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his legal adviser, or by persons to their religious or medical advisers. (b) A communication which does not expose the party making it to i…

Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. Dryden.

lutestring. Arbuthnot. Hatch from the egg, that soon, Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. Milton.

To open; to expand; to become disclosed or developed. The wind blows cold While the morning doth unfold. J. Fletcher.

a single animal or offspring collectively. [The egg] bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. Milton. With young, with child; pregnant.