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from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious. Hidden fifths or octaves (Mus.), consecutive fifths or octaves, not sounded, but suggested or implied in the parallel motion of two parts towards a fifth or an octave.

An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, -- used as a gem.

In a hidden manner.

Concealed or hidden out of the way. [Obs.] The eternal eye whose sight discerns Abstrusest thoughts. Milton.

because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

Hidden; secret. [Obs.] "The arcane part of divine wisdom." Berkeley.

on as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.

Having, or resembling, bosom; kept in the bosom; hidden.

existence. It assumed that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means.

ted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage. Locke.

Out of the way observation; secluded; secret; hidden. "He yet kept himself close because of Saul." 1 Chron. xii. 1 "Her close intent." Spenser.

Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons (Law), dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.

ty; attribute. It seemed to us a condition and property of divine powers and beings to be hidden and unseen to others. Bacon.

y. We 'll couch in the castle ditch, till we see the light of our fairies. Shak. The half-hidden, hallf-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture. I. Taylor.

That portion of a slate, tile, or shingle, which is hidden by the overlap of the course above. Knight.

Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden. Covered way (Fort.), a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See Illust. of Ra…

Hidden; secret; occult. "Her [nature's] more cryptic ways of working." Glanvill.

Hidden; concealed; secret. [Obs.] "Ye must be full dern." Chaucer.

The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot. Such secrets of guilt are never from detection. D. Webster.

ich is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden signification. Sir T. Browne.