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Spent with heat; covered with sweat. [Obs.] P. Sidney.

Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is fou…

To become covered or marked with freckles; to be spotted.

An oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole.

Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [R.]

Covered with a froth like hoarfrost. [Archaic] The foaming steed with frory bit to steer. Fairfax.

ion of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold. The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters. Kane. -- Frost valve, a valve to drain the portion of a pipe, hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to freeze. -- Jack Frost, a popular per…

Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight.

Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.

Covered with fur; dressed in fur. "Furry nations." Thomson.

Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet.

Covered as with a hat or cap. Smart.

Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive galery.

piral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales.

A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3.

A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth. Gig machine, Gigging machine, Gig mill, or Napping machine. See Gig, 4. -- Gig saw. See Jig saw.

Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow. "Gilt hair" Chaucer.

l.), a period during which the climate of the modern temperate regions was polar, and ice covered large portions of the northern hemisphere to the mountain tops. -- Glacial theory or hypothesis. (Geol.) See Glacier theory, under Glacier.

oth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin).

Glairy; covered with glair.