1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cloud.

2. (n.) A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing.

3. (n.) A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals.

baptism barrow beehive tomb bone house box grave burial at sea burial chamber burial customs burial mound burying catacombs cenotaph charnel house cist cist grave clouding concealedness concealment cortege covering covering up covertness cromlech crypt darkening dead march deception deep six deposition dip dipping dirge dokhma dolmen dousing duck ducking dunking encoffinment engulfment entombment exequies funeral funeral procession funerary customs grave hiddenness hiding house of death immergence immersion inhumation interment inundation inurning invisibility last home last post long home low green tent low house masking mastaba mausoleum monstrance muffled drum mummy chamber mystification narrow house obscuration obscurement obsequies occultation ossuarium ossuary passage grave pit primary burial putting away pyramid reburial reliquary resting place screening secondary burial secrecy secretion sepulcher sepulture shaft grave shrine sinking souse sousing stupa submergence submersion subterfuge taps tomb tope tower of silence tumulus uncommunicativeness urn burial vault