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Word Meanings - ENSCONCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal. She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras. Shak.

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  • STORER
    One who lays up or forms a store.
  • EXHIBITION
    The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
  • SCREENINGS
    The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • EXHIBITIONER
    One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
  • EXPOSER
    One who exposes or discloses.
  • COVERLET
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • SECRETE
    To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
  • PROTECT
    To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
  • CONCEALED
    Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
  • PRODUCEMENT
    Production.
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
    A woman who protects.
  • EXPOSEDNESS
    The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
  • PROTECTORIAL
    See PROTECTORAL
  • STORED
    Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity. It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot.
  • BETRAYAL
    The act or the result of betraying.
  • EXPOSE
    1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • DISSEMBLER
    One who dissembles; one who conceals his opinions or dispositions under a false appearance; a hypocrite. It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers. Bacon. Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. Pope. Syn. --
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • INCONCEALABLE
    Not concealable. "Inconcealable imperfections." Sir T. Browne.
  • DISCOVERTURE
    A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.

 

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