obscure

They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with obscured lights.

But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.

How! There's bad news. / I must obscure, and hear it.