Couvade (n.) A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.
Covariant (n.) A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.
Cove (n.) A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
Cove (n.) A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
Cove (n.) A concave molding.
Cove (n.) A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.
Coved (imp. & p. p.) of Cove
Coving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cove
Cove (v. t.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
Cove (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
Cove (n.) A boy or man of any age or station.
Covelline (n.) Alt. of Covellite
Covellite (n.) A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.
Covenable (a.) Fit; proper; suitable.
Covenably (adv.) Fitly; suitably.
Covenant (n.) A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement.
Covenant (n.) An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the "Solemn League and Covenant."
Covenant (n.) The promises of God as revealed in the Scriptures, conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience, repentance, faith, etc.
Covenant (n.) A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain its faith, discipline, etc.
Covenant (n.) An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; a stipulation; also, the document or writing containing the terms of agreement.
Covenant (n.) A form of action for the violation of a promise or contract under seal.
Covenanted (imp. & p. p.) of Covenant
Covenanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Covenant
Covenant (v. i.) To agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to bind one's self by contract; to make a stipulation.
Covenant (v. t.) To grant or promise by covenant.
Covenantee (n.) The person in whose favor a covenant is made.
Covenanter (n.) One who makes a covenant.
Covenanter (n.) One who subscribed and defended the "Solemn League and Covenant." See Covenant.
Covenanting (a.) Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters.
Covenantor (n.) The party who makes a covenant.
Covenous (a.) See Covinous, and Covin.
Covent (n.) A convent or monastery.
Coventry (n.) A town in the county of Warwick, England.
Covered (imp. & p. p.) of Cover
Covering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cover
Cover (v. t.) To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.
Cover (v. t.) To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak.
Cover (v. t.) To invest (one's self with something); to bring upon (one's self); as, he covered himself with glory.
Cover (v. t.) To hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the enemy were covered from our sight by the woods.
Cover (v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.
Cover (v. t.) To shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat.
Cover (v. t.) To remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit.
Cover (v. t.) To extend over; to be sufficient for; to comprehend, include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to counterbalance; as, a mortgage which fully covers a sum loaned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses.
Cover (v. t.) To put the usual covering or headdress on.
Cover (v. t.) To copulate with (a female); to serve; as, a horse covers a mare; -- said of the male.
Cover (n.) Anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book.
Cover (n.) Anything which veils or conceals; a screen; disguise; a cloak.
Cover (n.) Shelter; protection; as, the troops fought under cover of the batteries; the woods afforded a good cover.
Cover (n.) The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover.
Cover (n.) The lap of a slide valve.
Cover (n.) A tablecloth, and the other table furniture; esp., the table furniture for the use of one person at a meal; as, covers were laid for fifty guests.
Cover (v. i.) To spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet.
Coverchief (n.) A covering for the head.
Covercle (n.) A small cover; a lid.
Covered (a.) Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden.
Coverer (n.) One who, or that which, covers.
Covering (n.) Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc.
Coverlet (n.) The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture.
Coverlid (n.) A coverlet.
Cover-point (n.) The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
Coversed sine () The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
Cover-shame (n.) Something used to conceal infamy.
Covert (v. t.) Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.
Covert (v. t.) Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.
Covert (v. t.) Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband.
Covert (a.) A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.
Covert (a.) One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
Covert baron () Under the protection of a husband; married.
Covertly (adv.) Secretly; in private; insidiously.
Covertness (n.) Secrecy; privacy.
Coverture (n.) Covering; shelter; defense; hiding.
Coverture (n.) The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte.
Covered (imp. & p. p.) of Covet
Coveting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Covet
Covet (v. t.) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sense.
Covet (v. t.) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
Covet (v. i.) To have or indulge inordinate desire.
Covetable (a.) That may be coveted; desirable.
Coveter (n.) One who covets.
Covetise (v. t.) Avarice.
Covetiveness (n.) Acquisitiveness.
Covetous (v. t.) Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense.
Covetous (v. t.) Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (esp. money); avaricious; -- in a bad sense.
Covetously (adv.) In a covetous manner.
Covetousness (n.) Strong desire.
Covetousness (n.) A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense.
Covey (n.) A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges.
Covey (n.) A company; a bevy; as, a covey of girls.
Covey (v. i.) To brood; to incubate.
Covey (n.) A pantry.
Covin (n.) A collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third.
Covin (n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice.
Covinous (a.) Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest.
Cow (n.) A chimney cap; a cowl
Cows (pl. ) of Cow
Kine (pl. ) of Cow
Cow (n.) The mature female of bovine animals.
Cow (n.) The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc.
Cowed (imp. & p. p.) of Cow
Cowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cow