A Topical Dictionary: Search for covert

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English

Etymology

From covert (French couvert), past participle of couvrir, "to cover"

Adjective

Partially hidden, disguised, secret, surreptitious
covered

Noun

area of thick undergrowth where animals hide

fa:covert io:covert fi:covert ta:covert te:covert vi:covert tr:covert zh:covert

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Covert \Cov"ert\, n. [OF. See Covert, a.]
1. A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.
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A tabernacle . . . for a covert from storm. --Is.
iv. 6.
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The highwayman has darted from his covered by the
wayside. --Prescott.
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2. [Cf. F. couverte.] (Zool.) One of the special feathers
covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of
a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Covert \Cov"ert\ (k?v"?rt), a. [OF. covert, F. couvert, p. p. of
couvrir. See Cover, v. t.]
1. Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.
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How covert matters may be best disclosed. --Shak.
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Whether of open war or covert guile. --Milton
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2. Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a
covert nook. -- Wordsworth.
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Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley.
--Bacon.
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3. (Law) 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.
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Covert way, (Fort.) See Covered way, under Covered.

Syn: Hidden; secret; private; covered; disguised; insidious;
concealed. See Hidden.
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WordNet covert
adj 1: secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or
shown or avowed; "covert actions by the CIA"; "covert
funding for the rebels" [ant: overt]
2: of a wife; under the protection of her husband
n 1: a flock of coots
2: a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something;
"they crouched behind the screen"; "under cover of
darkness" [syn: screen, cover, concealment]

Moby Dictionary
abri , abstruse , air-raid shelter , armored , asylum , back-door ,
backstairs , beclouded , between the lines , blanket , blind ,
bolt-hole , bomb shelter , bombproof , boscage , bosket , brake , bunker ,
buried , burrow , by stealth , cache , camouflaged , canebrake , cased ,
cave , ceiled , ceja , chamisal , chaparral , clandestine , cloak ,
cloaked , close , clouded , coat , coated , concealed , concealment ,
coped , coppice , copse , copsewood , corner , couch , cover , coverage ,
covered , covering , covertly , coverture , cowl , cowled , cowling ,
cranny , cryptic , cubby , cubbyhole , curtain , curtained ,
cyclone cellar , dark corner , delitescent , den , disguised , dormant ,
drape , drapery , dugout , earth , eclipsed , encapsulated , encapsuled ,
encased , enveloped , enwrapped , esoteric , fallout shelter , feather ,
feathers , feline , filmed , floored , form , foxhole , frith , funk hole ,
furtive , furtively , guarded , guise , hackle , hanging , harbor ,
harborage , haven , hibernating , hid , hidden , hideaway , hideout ,
hidey hole , hiding , hiding place , hidlings , hole , hole-and-corner ,
hood , hooded , housed , housing , hugger-mugger , hush-hush ,
in a cloud , in a fog , in camera , in eclipse , in purdah ,
in the wings , incommunicado , lair , latent , lodge , loricate ,
loricated , lurking , mail , mantle , mantled , mask , masked , mew ,
motte , muffled , mysterious , mystic , niche , nook , obfuscated ,
obscure , obscured , occult , occulted , packaged , pall , paved ,
plumage , port , possible , potential , privately , privy , quiet ,
recess , recondite , refuge , retreat , roofed-in , run , safety zone ,
sanctuary , screen , screened , scummed , secluded , secluse , secret ,
secret place , sequestered , sheathed , shelled , shelter , shield ,
shielded , shifty , shroud , shrouded , skulking , sleeping , slinking ,
slinky , sly , sneaking , sneaky , speculum , stash , stealthily ,
stealthy , storm cave , storm cellar , sub rosa , submerged ,
surreptitious , surreptitiously , swathed , tented , thicket , thickset ,
trench , tunnel , under an eclipse , under cover , under house arrest ,
under the surface , under wraps , under-the-counter , under-the-table ,
undercover , undercovert , underground , underhand , underhanded ,
underlying , unknown , unmanifested , unobtrusive , veil , veiled ,
vestment , virtual , walled , walled-in , wrapped , wrapped in clouds

COVERT, BARON. A wife; so called, from her being under the cover or protection of her husband, baron or lord.

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