coverl (kuver)

[ mod. dial, kiver ), Pg . cobrir It. cobrir, cubrir = Sp. cubrir = coprire, L. cooper ire, cover, co- (intensive) + operire, shut, hide, conceal: see coöperculum, etc., and cf. aperient, apert.] I. trans. 1. To put something over or upon so as to protect, shut in, or conceal; overlay; overspread or envelop with something; specifically, to put a cover or covering (designed for the purpose) upon: as, to cover a dish; to cover a chair with plush; to cover a table with a cloth; to cover the body with clothes. IMG:content-1499.png:[blocks in formation] The valleys are covered over with corn. Ps. lxv. 13. Go to thy fellows; bid them cover the table, serve in the meat, and we will come to dinner. Shak., M. of V., iii. 5. 2. To hide or screen as by something overspread or intervening, either literally or figuratively; cause to be invisible or unobserved; put out of sight or consideration: as, the top of the mountain was covered by a cloud; they sought to cover their guilt: often followed by up: as, the thieves covered up their tracks. If I say, Surely the darkne shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me. Ps. cxxxix. 11. Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. 1 Pet. iv. 8. No monument, Though high and big as Pelion, shall be able To cover this base murder. Beau , and Fl ., Phil aster, v. 3. How come others only to make use of the pretence of vertue to deceive, and of honesty and integrity to cover 12. To brood or sit on, as a hen on eggs or Where finding life not yet dislodged quight, He much rejoyst, and courd it tenderly, As chicken newly hatcht, from dreaded destiny. Spenser, F. Q., II. viii. 9. Whilst the hen is covering her eggs, the male generally takes his stand upon a neighbouring bough. Add is on, Spectator. 13. To counterbalance; compensate for: as, to cover one's lo .-14. To contain; comprise. - Covered battery. See battery. Covered consecutives. See consecutive. - Covered money. See money. Covered way. (a) In fort., an open corridor bordering the ditch, and ranging round the outworks, so as to form a continuous line of communication, masked from the enemy by a parapet, which in modern use is regularly formed embankment. covered way most dispensable of all the outworks to a besieged garrison, because it affords them a covered position beyond the ditch from which to make a sortie, or to guard the ditch and the communications. If repulsed in a sortie, the covered way affords the garrison a secure point of retreat. (b) In arch,, a rece left in a brick or stone wall to receive the roofing. Gwilt. Also covert-way. To cover into, to transfer to: as, to cover the balance of an appropriation into the Treasury. There remains a considerable sum (about $2,600) to cover into the treasury. Science, V. 374. To cover shorts or short sales, on the stock exchange, to buy in such stocks as have been sold short, in order to meet one's engagements or for protection against lo . See short. To cover the buckle, to execute a peculiar and difficult step in dancing. [Colloq.] Triplet played like Pagan in i, or an intoxicated demon. Woffington covered the buckle in gallant style; she danced, the children danced. C. Reade, Peg Woffington, viii. To cover the feet. See foot . Syn. 2. To disguise, secrete, screen, shield, mask, cloak, veil, shroud. II. in trans. 1. To envelop or be spread over something so that it is invisible: specifically said of opaque paints (those having "body"), which readily conceal the material upon which they are spread. The product [white lead] covers as well as the best substance made by the Dutch proce , and better than that made by the French, being denser and of a finer grain. Workshop Receipts , 2d ser., p. 421. 2. To lay a table for a meal; prepare a banquet. To cover courtly for a king. Greene, Friar Bacon, p. 169. Lor. Bid them prepare dinner. Laun. That is done, too, sir: only, cover is the word. Shak ., M. of V., iii. 5. 3. To put one's hat on. 3. To pardon or remit: a scriptural use. Ble ed is he whose transgre ion is forgiven, whose sin is covered . Ps. xxxii. 1. Ps. lxxxv. 2. Thou hast covered all their sin. The sin or defilement is covered , a legal term which is often equivalent to atonement. Bible Commentary, Ps. xxxii. 1. 4. Reflexively and figuratively, to invest or overspread (one's self or one's reputation with): as, he covered himself with glory. In the whole proceedings of the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland, there is none more marked for selfish profligacy. Brougham, 5. To shelter; protect; defend: as, a squadron of horse covered the retreat. And the soft wings of peace cover him around. Cowley . The lo of the Spaniards, covered as they were by their defences, was inconsiderable. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 12. 6. To put the usual head-covering on; replace the hat on. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn. 1 Cor. xi. 6. Nay; pray be covered . Shak., As you Like it, iii. 3. 7. To travel or pa over; move through: as, the expre covered the distance in fifteen minutes.-8. To copulate with: said of male animals.-9. To be equal to be of the same extent or amount; be coextensive with; be 1. Something which is laid, placed, or spread over or upon another thing to inclose, close, envelop, or protect it: as, the cover of a box or a dish; the cover of a bed; the cover of a book. The Latins celebrated the ma of the resurrection, and at Gloria in excels is a cover was let down, and the tapestry on the front of the holy sepulchre appeared, representing the resurrection. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 18. The canvas cover of the buggy had been folded away under it. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 125. 2. Something which veils, screens, or shuts from sight; an obstruction to vision or perception; a concealment; a screen; a disguise: as, to addre a letter under cover to another person; he a umed the disguise of a merchant as a cover for his design. Their bluntne , as it is the seeming effect of sincerity, is the best cover to artifice. Steele, Tatler, No. 208. Hay . The main body retired under cover of the night. 3. Shelter of any kind; defense, as against the weather or an enemy; protection: as, the troops fought under cover of the batteries. By being compelled to lodge in the field, which grew now to be very cold, whilst his army was under cover , they might be forced to retire. Clarendon, Great Rebellion. I went under cover of this escort to the end of their march. U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, I. 386. 4. Shrubbery, woods, thicket, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game: as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover. IMG:content-1500.jpg:[blocks in formation] 5. In roofing, that part of a slate, tile, or shingle which is covered by the overlap of the course above.-6. [Cf. F. couvert, with same sense: see couvert.] The utensils, such as plate, knives, forks, spoons, napkin, wine-gla es, etc., required at table by one person: so called because originally brought together in a case, or in compact form, for transportation, traveling, or the like: as, the traveling cover of King George IV. in the Jones collection at South Kensington; to lay a cover.-7. The cap-head or end-piece of an upright steam-cylinder. - To break cover. See break. To draw a cover. See draw.=Syn. See covering.