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81occultation — Synonyms and related words: annular eclipse, blackout, blanketing, blocking, blotting out, burial, burying, cementwork, central eclipse, cloaking, clouding, coating, concealedness, concealment, coverage, covering, covering up, covertness,… …
82sheathing — Synonyms and related words: beam, billet, blanketing, blocking, blotting out, board, boarding, case, casing, cementwork, clapboard, cloaking, clouding, coating, cord, cordwood, coverage, covering, curtaining, deal, driftwood, eclipse, eclipsing,… …
83shielding — Synonyms and related words: blanketing, cloaking, coating, covering, custodial, defending, defensive, enveloping, fostering, guardian, guarding, immunizing, parental, preventive, prophylactic, protecting, protective, safeguarding, screening, self …
84upholstery — Synonyms and related words: blanketing, blocking, blotting out, cementwork, cloaking, clouding, coating, coverage, covering, curtaining, eclipse, eclipsing, envelopment, enwrapment, enwrapping, hiding, incrustation, laying on, mantling, masking,… …
85wrapping — Synonyms and related words: ambient, bandage, bandaging, binder, binding, blanketing, blocking, blotting out, cementwork, circling, circumambient, circumferential, circumflex, circumfluent, circumfluous, circumjacent, cloaking, clouding, coating …
86biblioklept — (n.) 1881, from BIBLIO (Cf. biblio ) + Gk. kleptes thief (see KLEPTOMANIA (Cf. kleptomania)). Walsh calls it a modern euphemism which softens the ugly word book thief by shrouding it in the mystery of the Greek language …
87shroud — {{11}}shroud (n.) O.E. scrud a garment, clothing, from W.Gmc. *skruthan, from P.Gmc. *skrud cut (Cf. O.N. skruð shroud of a ship, Dan., Swed. skrud dress, attire ), variant of *skreud to cut, related to O.E. screade (see SHRED (Cf …
88shroud — [[t]ʃra͟ʊd[/t]] shrouds, shrouding, shrouded 1) N COUNT A shroud is a cloth which is used for wrapping a dead body. 2) N COUNT: N of n You can refer to something that surrounds an object or situation as a shroud of something. ...a parked car… …
89Inkerman, Battle of — (1854) An engagement of the Crimean War fought on November 5, 1854. Inkerman became known as the “soldier’s battle,” for, with a heavy mist shrouding the field, officers were unable to direct their troops and the fighting was left to the… …
90eclipse — I. n. 1. Occultation, eclipsing. 2. Obscuration, darkening, dimming, clouding, veiling, hiding, shrouding, disappearance, concealment, vanishing, occultation. 3. Extinguishment, extinction, obliteration, blotting out, destruction, annihilation.… …
