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Spring :: Spring (v. t.) To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant..

Elude :: Elude (v. t.) To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow..

Sinister :: Sinister (a.) Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance..

Leap :: Leap (n.) Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast..

Covertness :: Covertness (n.) Secrecy; privacy.

Discoverture :: Discoverture (n.) Discovery.

Fieldfare :: Fieldfare (n.) a small thrush (Turdus pilaris) which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare..

Covert :: Covert (v. t.) Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.

Assart :: Assart (n.) The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest..

Steal :: Steal (v. t.) To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.

Lodge :: Lodge (n.) To drive to shelter; to track to covert.

Kingbird :: Kingbird (n.) A small American bird (Tyrannus tyrannus, or T. Carolinensis), noted for its courage in attacking larger birds, even hawks and eagles, especially when they approach its nest in the breeding season. It is a typical tyrant flycatcher, taking various insects upon the wing. It is dark ash above, and blackish on the head and tail. The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges. It is white beneath, with a white terminal band on the tail. The feathers on the head of the adults show

Discovert :: Discovert (a.) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.

Coverture :: 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..

Crissal :: Crissal (a.) Having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal thrasher..

Coverture :: Coverture (n.) Covering; shelter; defense; hiding.

Covert :: Covert (a.) A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.

Blind :: Blind (n.) Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge..

Overt :: Overt (a.) Not covert; open; public; manifest; as, an overt act of treason..

Sneer :: Sneer (v. i.) To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively.

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