Definition of cover

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Cover (v. t.) To invest (one's self with something); to bring upon (one's self); as, he covered himself with glory..

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Mask :: Mask (v. t.) To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out..
Clasp :: Clasp (n.) An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc..
Inaurate :: Inaurate (v. t.) To cover with gold; to gild.
Supra-auricular :: Supra-auricular (a.) Situated above the ear coverts, or auriculars; -- said of certain feathers of birds..
Analogy :: Analogy (n.) A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden..
Bind :: Bind (v. t.) To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound..
Pleura :: Pleura (n. fem.) The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane.
Ambuscade :: Ambuscade (v. t.) To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay..
Drused :: Drused (a.) Covered with a large number of minute crystals.
Glacis :: Glacis (n.) A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin)..
Pauldron :: Pauldron (n.) A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece.
Valetudinarian :: Valetudinarian (a.) Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm.
Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To rescue; to deliver.
Shingling :: Shingling (n.) The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles..
Wolffian :: Wolffian (a.) Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology..
Pustulated :: Pustulated (a.) Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral..
Phimosis :: Phimosis (n.) A condition of the penis in which the prepuce can not be drawn back so as to uncover the glans penis.
Valvelet :: Valvelet (n.) A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp..
Hone :: Hone (n.) A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone..
Costeaning :: Costeaning (n.) The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits..
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