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A covering for the head; esp.

An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. Their horses clothed with rich caparison. Drylen.

Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves.

To cover with, or as with, a hood; hence, to hoodwink or blind. Hudibras.

A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.

A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place.

A metallic seal or cover for closing a bottle,

Cover with, or as with, a hood. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The thick shell or sheild which cover the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.

A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts.

To cover (an animal or vegatable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.

Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.

d decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing. A rotten carcass of a boat. Shak.

ol) delivered from a carding machine. Card clothing, strips of wire-toothed card used for covering the cylinders of carding machines.

arding cotton, wool, or other fiber, by subjecting it to the action of cylinders, or drum covered with wire-toothed cards, revoling nearly in contact with each other, at different rates of speed, or in opposite directions, The staple issues in soft sheets, or in slender rolls called sivers.

A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills.

A covered cart.

Fleshy substance or quality; fleshy covering. [Consciences] overgrown with so hard a carnosity. Spelman. The olives, indeed be very small there, and bigger than capers; yet commended they are for their carnosity. Holland.

en or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables. Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets. T. Full…

1. The act of covering with carpets.