Definition of covering

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Covering (n.) Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc..

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Waistcoat :: Waistcoat (n.) A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest..
Water Deck :: Water deck () A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse.
Water Gilding :: Water gilding () The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding..
Corticated :: Corticated (a.) Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.
Ploc :: Ploc (n.) A mixture of hair and tar for covering the bottom of a ship.
Fleece :: Fleece (v. t.) To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool..
Sheathing :: Sheathing (n.) The first covering of boards on the outside wall of a frame house or on a timber roof; also, the material used for covering; ceiling boards in general..
Shell :: Shell (n.) The hard covering of an egg.
Waxwork :: Waxwork (n.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds..
Cap :: Cap (n.) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope..
Bald :: Bald (a.) Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak..
Tentory :: Tentory (n.) The awning or covering of a tent.
Hydrocele :: Hydrocele (n.) A collection of serous fluid in the areolar texture of the scrotum or in the coverings, especially in the serous sac, investing the testicle or the spermatic cord; dropsy of the testicle..
Shed :: Shed (v. t.) To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water..
Unbreech :: Unbreech (v. t.) To free the breech of, as a cannon, from its fastenings or coverings..
Indusium :: Indusium (n.) A peculiar covering found in certain fungi.
Capillament :: Capillament (n.) Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves..
Recovering :: Recovering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recove.
Glume :: Glume (n.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt..
Revalescent :: Revalescent (a.) Growing well; recovering strength.
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