 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cloak
noun
1: anything that covers or conceals
2: a loose outer garment
verb: hide under a false appearance; "He masked his
disappointment" [syn: {dissemble}, {mask}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cloak \Cloak\ (kl[=o]k; 110), noun [Of. cloque cloak (from the
bell-like shape), bell, F. cloche bell; perh. of Celtic
origin and the same word as E. clock. See 1st {Clock}.]
1. 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. That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a
fair pretense; a mask; a cover.
No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy
who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak.
--South.
{Cloak bag}, a bag in which a cloak or other clothes are
carried; a portmanteau. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cloak \Cloak\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Cloaked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Cloaking}.]
To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or
conceal.
Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter. --Spenser.
Syn: See {Palliate}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
148 Moby Thesaurus words for "cloak":
alibi, apology, apply to, arm, armor, becloud, befog, blanket,
bless, blind, block, bonnet, boot, breech, camouflage, canopy, cap,
cape, champion, clothe, cloud, coat, coif, color, compass about,
conceal, concealment, cope, copyright, cover, cover story,
cover up, cover-up, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl,
cowling, curtain, cushion, defend, device, disguise, dissemble,
dissimulate, distract attention from, drape, drapery, dress up,
eclipse, ensconce, enshroud, ensure, envelop, excuse, facade, face,
feint, fence, fend, film, frock, front, gloss, gloss over, gown,
guarantee, guard, guise, handle, hanging, harbor, hat, haven, hide,
hood, housing, insure, jacket, keep, keep from harm,
keep under cover, lame excuse, lay on, lay over, locus standi,
make safe, mantle, mask, muffle, nestle, obduce, obfuscate,
obscure, occult, ostensible motive, overcoat, overlay, overspread,
pall, patent, police, poncho, poor excuse, pretense, pretension,
pretext, protect, protestation, public motive, put on, put-off,
refuge, register, ride shotgun for, robe, safeguard, screen, scum,
secure, semblance, shade, sham, shelter, shield, shirt, shoe, show,
shroud, slur over, smoke screen, sock, spread over, stalking-horse,
stocking, stratagem, subterfuge, superimpose, superpose, trick,
underwrite, varnish, veil, veneer, vestment, whitewash, wrap
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Cloak
an upper garment, "an exterior tunic, wide and long, reaching to
the ankles, but without sleeves" (Isa. 59:17). The word so
rendered is elsewhere rendered "robe" or "mantle." It was worn
by the high priest under the ephod (Ex. 28:31), by kings and
others of rank (1 Sam. 15:27; Job 1:20; 2:12), and by women (2
Sam. 13:18).
The word translated "cloke", i.e., outer garment, in Matt.
5:40 is in its plural form used of garments in general (Matt.
17:2; 26:65). The cloak mentioned here and in Luke 6:29 was the
Greek himation, Latin pallium, and consisted of a large square
piece of wollen cloth fastened round the shoulders, like the
abba of the Arabs. This could be taken by a creditor (Ex.
22:26,27), but the coat or tunic (Gr. chiton) mentioned in Matt.
5:40 could not.
The cloak which Paul "left at Troas" (2 Tim. 4:13) was the
Roman paenula, a thick upper garment used chiefly in travelling
as a protection from the weather. Some, however, have supposed
that what Paul meant was a travelling-bag. In the Syriac version
the word used means a bookcase. (See {Dress}.)
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