Lexic.us

Definition of Cloak

1. Verb. Hide under a false appearance. "He masked his disappointment"

2. Noun. Anything that covers or conceals.

3. Verb. Cover as if with clothing. "The mountain was clothed in tropical trees"

4. Noun. A loose outer garment.

5. Verb. Cover with or as if with a cloak. "Cloaked monks"

Definition of Cloak

1. n. A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.

2. v. t. To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal.

Definition of Cloak

1. Noun. A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood. ¹

2. Noun. A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical. ¹

3. Noun. (Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable. ¹

4. Verb. To cover as with a cloak. ¹

5. Verb. (science fiction) To render invisible via futuristic technology. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cloak

1. to conceal [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: conceal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloak

clivities clivity clivus clivus ocularis clm cloacae cloacal cloacal membrane cloacal theory cloacas

cloacin cloacitis cloak (current term) cloak-and-dagger cloaked cloakedly cloaking cloaking device cloaking devices cloakings

cloakless cloaklike cloakmaker cloakmakers cloakroom cloakrooms cloaks

Literary usage of Cloak

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by William Walker Wilkins (1860)
"Then let us endeavor to pull this cloak down, ... The churches did choke, And all our Religion was turn'd to a cloak: It brought in lay-elders could not ..."

2. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"She rose from her sitting posture, first dragging the saturated cloak and then letting ... He jumped out, found the hat, and lifted up the saturated cloak, ..."

3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"cloak-TWITCH ERS, subi. (old).— Thieves who made a special business of robbing the ... [From cloak + TWITCH, to snatch,-t-ER.] Iri the old French cant these ..."

4. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"At length, the master of the ceremonies, in a black coat in the French fashion and short breeches, with a cloak, cambric mourning-bands, a long sword by his ..."

5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"I appeared before them; and they began to upbraid and cry out upon me—partly, I think, because they saw me in my cloak, while the others were dressed like ..."

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