intransitive. To burst or spring out from restraint, confinement, or concealment. Said of persons and things material, also of fire, light, etc.

intransitive. To move or travel forward, onward, or out of somewhere.

intransitive. To emerge suddenly, as from a place of concealment. Now rare.

transitive. To remove from a nest; (chiefly figurative) to remove from a place of safety, comfort, or secrecy.

to break covert (also cover): to start forth from a hiding place; also absol. to break; cf. senses 37 39.

intransitive. To come out of cover or hiding.

intransitive. To come out of a retreat or hiding place; (of a fox) to come out of its earth. Obsolete.

To come forth into view; to pass out, issue, from an enclosed space, area of obscuration, etc.

intransitive. To come out of a burrow. Also figurative.

in same sense.

intransitive. To slip out; to escape unobserved from school or house; to break bounds.