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Cover :: Cover (n.) The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover..

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..

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..

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

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

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.

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..

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

Shark :: Shark (v. t.) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.

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

Crissum :: Crissum (n.) That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts..

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..

Sap :: Sap (n.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc..

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

Lyre Bird :: Lyre bird () Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail..

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

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

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..

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