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Rouse :: Rouse (v.) To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase..

Spring :: Spring (v. i.) To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert..

Covertly :: Covertly (adv.) Secretly; in private; insidiously.

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

Ambuscade :: Ambuscade (v. t.) To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay..

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..

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

Stabat Mater :: Stab (n.) Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character..

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

Stabiliment :: Stabbingly (adv.) By stabbing; with intent to injure covertly.

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

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

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 (v. t.) Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband..

Allusion :: Allusion (n.) A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint..

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

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.

Supra-auricular :: Supra-auricular (a.) Situated above the ear coverts, or auriculars; -- said of certain feathers of birds..

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

Antithesis :: Antithesis (n.) An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself. He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen..

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