(a) To conceal (sb. or sth.), hide, put in a secret place; also fig.; ~ face, disappear; (b) refl. to conceal oneself, hide; disappear; (c) to protect (sb. or sth.), shelter; ~ hed, hide (one's) head, find shelter or protection; (d) to withhold (sth.) secretly, keep back; hoard (money, goods, etc.); fig. hoard (words, etc.), preserve secretly or quietly; (e) to keep (sth.) in obscurity; disguise (sth.); refl. live in seclusion; conceal one's opinions or feelings; (f) to cohabit with (a woman) secretly.

(a) To cover up (sb. or sth.), wrap, surround, hide from sight; blot out (stars, colors, etc.); make invisible; plunge (a sword into sth.); also fig.; ppl. hid, of a wound, an ulcer: not visible on the surface of the body; (b) refl. to cover (oneself); hide one's nakedness; also fig.; (c) to cover (the head, arms, genitals, etc.), clothe, deck; (d) to cover (one's head, face, eyes) in order to sleep, to keep from seeing, on account of anger, fear, loathing, sorrow, etc.; cover (someone's head, face, eyes) to prevent seeing, blindfold; cover (the head or eyes of the dead); ~ face from, turn away from (sb.), forsake, reject; (e) to blot out (sin).

(a) To keep (a fact, a condition, an action) secret; conceal (sin, one's thoughts, a good deed, etc.); ppl. hid, hidden, secret, unknown; (b) ~ leden (wordes), to refrain or prevent from speaking; (c) is not (nought) to ~, is nought at ~, in herte (hit) is nought to ~, in herte is not to ~, the soth is nought to ~, it cannot be kept secret, it is very true; (d) ppl. hid as noun: a mystery, secret.

Med. (a) To cover up (bitterness), palliate; (b) to relieve the symptoms of (a disease), reduce (a swelling), ease, mitigate.

(a) To disappear, conceal oneself, hide, be hidden; (b) ~ in, to take shelter in (sth.).