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Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden. Covered way (Fort.), a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See Illust. of Ra…

Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised. How covert matters may be best disclosed. Shak. Whether of open war or covert guile. Milton

Covering; shelter; defence; hiding. Protected by walls or other like coverture. Woodward. Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak.

The quality of being coy; feigned o When the kind nymph would coyness feign, And hides but to be found again. Dryden.

like medicinal preparation. In vain she tries her paste and creams, To smooth her skin or hide its seams. Goldsmith.

shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow. I have known the statute of an emperor quite hid under a crust of dross. Addison. Below this icy crust of conformity, the waters of infidelity lay dark and deep as ever. Prescott.

Hidden; secret; occult. "Her [nature's] more cryptic ways of working." Glanvill.

gins. -- To draw the curtain, to close ot over an object, or to remove it; hence: (a) To hide or to disclose an object. (b) To commence or close a performance. -- To drop the curtain, to end the tale, or close the performance.

A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper.

ertain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs. Burrill.

raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm. Wharton's Law Dict. Tomlins.

To lurk; to lie hid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.

e opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance. Language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes. Trench. Deceptive cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the subdominant, or in some foreign key, postponing the final close.

s leather manufacture, but is now made for its own sake, being valuable as a dressing for hides.

Lying hid; concealed.

To chide; to rail heartily. [Obs.]

Chiding; brawl. [Obs.]

to depreciate; to malign; to revile. [Obs.] And thou knowest, conscience, I came not to chide Nor deprave thy person with a proud heart. Piers Plowman.

Hidden; concealed; secret. [Obs.] "Ye must be full dern." Chaucer.