figurative. Concealment; dissimulation, deceit, covert conduct.

Concealment; chiefly in without lain (or but lain), without concealment or disguise.

The action of cover, v.1, in various senses.

That which cloaks or conceals (an act, etc.), or which may be used for that purpose; a cloak or covering. Also: the action of cloaking or concealing…

Concealment; = lain, n.1

Concealment, secrecy, privacy; chiefly in in hudder-mudder.

Concealment, secrecy; esp. in in hugger-mugger: in secret, secretly, clandestinely. Formerly in ordinary literary use, now archaic or informal.

The action or an act of keeping something secret or hidden from knowledge.

Concealment; esp. in Law, concealment of birth or pregnancy.

Concealment; = hugger-mugger, n. 1.

transferred and figurative.

The action of the verb, in various senses.

The action or process of keeping something secret; refusal to disclose or reveal. Also: an instance of this. Cf. sense 1c.

The action of disguising.

= hugger-mugger, n. 1.

The state of lying concealed or hid; spec. in Physiology and Pathology (see quots.). Of an animal: Hibernation.

An act of covering up (in various senses: see to cover up at cover, v.1 phrasal verbs); spec. assistance given to a wrongdoer in escaping…

plural. In figurative phrases referring to concealment or disuse, as underor in wraps, concealed; in abeyance; to takeor pull the wraps off, to…