Definition of covering

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Covering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cove.

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Cortex :: Cortex (n.) Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering..
Cymar :: Cymar (n.) A slight covering; a scarf. See Simar.
Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To put the usual covering or headdress on.
Convalescent :: Convalescent (n.) One recovering from sickness.
Gnathotheca :: Gnathotheca (n.) The horney covering of the lower mandible of a bird.
Tegumentary :: Tegumentary (a.) Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.
Sock :: Sock (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.
Coat :: Coat (n.) A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish..
Thatch :: Thatch (n.) Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain..
Icing :: Icing (n.) A coating or covering resembling ice, as of sugar and milk or white of egg; frosting..
Lava :: Lava (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States..
Buskin :: Buskin (n.) A strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg..
Skin :: Skin (n.) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing..
Clothing :: Clothing (n.) A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat..
Scale :: Scale (n.) One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid..
Flashing :: Flashing (n.) A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.
Sleeve :: Sleeve (n.) A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes..
Purport :: Purport (n.) Disguise; covering.
Wig :: Wig (n.) A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers..
Cestus :: Cestus (n.) A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron..
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