Dictionary entry

Concealment

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Con‐ceal″ment (?), n. [OF. concelement.] 1. The act of concealing; the state of being concealed.

But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,

Feed on her damask cheek.

Shak.

Some dear cause

Will in concealment wrap me up awhile.

Shak.

2. A place of hiding; a secret place; a retreat frem observation.

The cleft tree

Offers its kind concealment to a few.

Thomson.

3. A secret; out of the way knowledge.

Well read in strange concealments.

Shak.

4. (Law) Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known. Wharton.