Definition of covert

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Covert (v. t.) Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook..

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Coverture :: Coverture (n.) Covering; shelter; defense; hiding.
Crissal :: Crissal (a.) Having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal thrasher..
Emissary :: Emissary (n.) An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter..
Covert :: Covert (v. t.) Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook..
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..
Covert :: Covert (a.) A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert..
Cover :: Cover (n.) The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover..
Vanjas :: Vanjas (n.) The Australian pied crow shrike (Strepera graculina). It is glossy bluish black, with the under tail coverts and the tips and bases of the tail feathers white..
Stabat Mater :: Stab (n.) Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character..
Median :: Median (a.) Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts..
Covert Baron :: Covert baron () Under the protection of a husband; married.
Rouse :: Rouse (v.) To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase..
Redwing :: Redwing (n.) A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American passerine bird (Agelarius ph/niceus) of the family Icteridae. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird..
Crissum :: Crissum (n.) That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts..
Supra-auricular :: Supra-auricular (a.) Situated above the ear coverts, or auriculars; -- said of certain feathers of birds..
Discovert :: Discovert (n.) An uncovered place or part.
Shark :: Shark (v. t.) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
Stabiliment :: Stabbingly (adv.) By stabbing; with intent to injure covertly.
Lodge :: Lodge (n.) To drive to shelter; to track to covert.
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