Definitions of occult:

• noun:   occult practices and techniques

  Example: "He is a student of the occult"

• noun:   supernatural forces and events and beings collectively
• verb:   hide from view

  Example: "The lids were occulting her eyes"

• verb:   become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished

  Example: "The beam of light occults every so often"

• verb:   cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention

  Example: "Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies"

• adjective:   hidden and difficult to see

  Example: "An occult fracture"

• adjective:   having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding

  Example: "Occult lore"