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Syn. -- Hidden; secret; private; covered; disguised;
insidious; concealed. See Hidden.

Cov"ert, n. [OF. See Covert,
a.] 1. A place that covers
and protects; a shelter; a defense.

A tabernacle . . . for a covert from
storm.

Is. iv. 6.

The highwayman has darted from his covered
by the wayside.

Prescott.

2. [Cf. F. couverte.]
(Zoöl.) One of the special feathers covering the
bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See
Illust. of Bird.

Cov"ert bar`on (b?r`?n). (Law) Under the
protection of a husband; married. Burrill.

Cov"ert*ly, adv. Secretly; in
private; insidiously.

Cov"ert*ness (k?v"?rt-n?s), n.
Secrecy; privacy. [R.]

Cov"er*ture (k?v"?r-t?r; 135), n.
[OF. coverture,F. couverture.] 1.
Covering; shelter; defense; hiding.

Protected by walls or other like
coverture.

Woodward.

Beatrice, who even now

Is couched in the woodbine coverture.


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