Conceal \Con*ceal"\ (k[o^]n*s[=e]l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Concealed} (k[o^]n*s[=e]ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Concealing}.] [OF. conceler, L. concelare; con- + celareto hide; akin to AS. helan, G. hehlen, E. hele (to cover), helmet. See {Hell}, {Helmet}.] To hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing. --Prov. xxv. 2.
Declare ye among the nations, . . . publish and conceal not. --Jer. l. 2.
He which finds him shall deserve our thanks, . . . He that conceals him, death. --Shak.
Usage: {To Conceal}, {Hide}, {Disguise}, {Dissemble}, {Secrete}. To hide is the generic term, which embraces all the rest. To conceal is simply not make known what we wish to keep secret. In the Bible hide often has the specific meaning of conceal. See --1 Sam. iii. 17, 18. To disguise or dissemble is to conceal by assuming some false appearance. To secrete is to hide in some place of secrecy. A man may conceal facts, disguise his sentiments, dissemble his feelings, secrete stolen goods.
We have in these words a primary sense, which reveals a future state, and a secondary sense, which hides and secretes it. --Warburton.
All eight officers were charged with entry without permission, a misdemeanor, and with conspiracy to conceal a crime, a felony.
The deposits helped the bank conceal losses, the report said.
Citing security precautions, Defense Department officials have gone to great lengths to conceal the exact location of the approximately 230,000 U.S. troops stationed in and around Saudi Arabia.
The new criminal-contempt complaint reiterates the government's allegations that Mr. Eyerman instructed a First Jersey branch manager to conceal and destroy documents to disrupt the efforts of a court-appointed monitor, Benjamin L. Lubin.
Also on trial is Saudi financier Adnan Khashoggi, who is accused of helping the Marcoses conceal a series of New York real estate deals allegedly financed in part with money stolen from the Philippine treasury.
But on the tape, Awan said the bank owned First American despite a series of shareholders designed to conceal the bank's ownership.
The bill also condemned China's efforts to conceal the truth of what happened, including clandestine disposal of bodies and suppression of news reports.
The agency also claimed that the company falsified data to conceal the open-air test, a charge the company denied.
It replaced ones made of goat hair, which had to be powdered and dressed with scented ointment every day to conceal the filth.
But Mr. Zaitsev can't be so readily taken at face value, partly because he's careful to remain as much of a riddle as the women his clothes conceal.
Khashoggi, a co-defendant, is accused of forging documents to help the Marcoses conceal their ownership of the paintings and real estate in violation of a U.S. court order freezing any transactions involving Marcos-owned properties.
Yet the recommendations seem to leave little room for them to conceal the sins of the past, since they are being required to own up to weaknesses and say how they are making amends.
Her co-defendant, Saudi Arabian financier Adnan Khashoggi, is charged with having helped the Marcoses conceal their ownership of the buildings and some artworks.
The volume of unoccupied property surged in Germany's 12 leading cities from 1.4m sq m in 1992 to 2.4m sq m in 1993; up more than 70 per cent. The data conceal sharp regional differences.
McFarlane denied that he and other officials concocted a cover story last November to conceal potentially damaging details of the Iran-Contra operation.
Frequent collection, at least every 30 minutes and eventually every 15 minutes, of trading cards to reduce the potential for altering records to conceal illegal trading activity.
Mr. Mastronardo was convicted on 11 counts of conducting an illegal gambling business, interstate phone calls in furtherance of illegal gambling, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and scheming to conceal information.
Intervention rumors are difficult to evaluate because central banks often try to conceal their trading activities and decline to comment on them.
Even after the diversion was discovered by Justice Department attorneys last Nov. 22, Col. North testified that he sought to conceal Mr. Casey's role in the scheme to funnel arms-sale profits to assist Nicaraguan insurgents.
In pleading guilty Nov. 30, Roberts also admitted that he arranged for the filing of false statements with the Federal Election Commission to conceal illegal corporate donations to a number of lawmakers.
It is trying o determine if other Reagan administration officials participated in efforts to conceal from Congress the covert arms supply network North operated to assist the Nicaraguan Contras when U.S. military aid was cut off.
The director of the center is Jack Wilson, a one-time firefighter himself, who doesn't try to conceal his pride.
It was the first time stock "parking," in which parties try to conceal the sale or transfer of securities, was prosecuted as a felony.
Williamson believed Young was attempting to conceal this by simulating or `faking' a southern accent.
There is no feeling that Joe, the homosexual barber, has ever faced hostility or the need to conceal what he is, though the audience is evidently meant to take this for granted.
This is hardly the approach of a government trying to conceal the information. I acknowledged that the glass is filling but is not topped up yet.
Mr. Bush may be palatable to the Neocons, but the Old Rightists are already suspicious of his libertarian leanings, and the New Rightists can't conceal their contempt for the preppy Wall Street crowd he runs with.
Like Durenberger before him, a repentant Frank said he had reformed _ mostly as a result of his decision to go public about his sexuality. "Everything I did that was deceptive was done to conceal the fact that I was gay," he said.
Q. Did he ever tell you the president of the United States told him to conceal what he was doing.
The 202-page historians' document suggested there was no proof that Waldheim took part in war crimes while with the German army, but said he had made every effort to conceal his wartime past until his Balkans service was first disclosed in March 1986.