whelve
v. to cover with an inverted bowl

(Thanks, Ian.)

Anagrams:

THE NUDIST COLONY = NO UNTIDY CLOTHES
A SENTENCE OF DEATH = FACES ONE AT THE END
AN AISLE = IS A LANE
IS PITY LOVE? = POSITIVELY
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE = CAN RUIN A SELECTED VICTIM
CABARET = A BAR, ETC.
THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA = A DICTIONARY CAN BE ELEPHANTIC
GREYHOUND = HEY, DOG, RUN!
H.M.S. PINAFORE = NAME FOR SHIP
COMMITTEES = COST ME TIME
HEARTHSTONES = HEAT’S THRONES
THE DAWNING = NIGHT WANED
A STRIP-TEASER = ATTIRE SPARSE

A Queens College teacher left a note on his classroom door:

PROFESSOR TOBIN WILL NOT MEET HIS CLASSES TODAY.

He later noticed that a student had erased the first letter in CLASSES.

So he erased the second letter as well.

egrote
v. to feign sickness in order to avoid work

“I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.”

— Charles Carroll Bombaugh, Gleanings for the Curious From the Harvest-Fields of Literature, 1890

Complementary palindromes:

DO, O GOD, NO EVIL DEED, LIVE ON, DO GOOD!

LIVE, O DEVIL, REVEL EVER, LIVE, DO EVIL!

jehu
n. a reckless driver

Does any English word contain all six vowels?

Unquestionably.