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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.

orse kept for drawing a carriage. -- Carriage porch (Arch.), a canopy or roofed pavilion covering the driveway at the entrance to any building. It is intended as a shelter for those who alight from vehicles at the door; -- sometimes erroneously called in the United States porte-cochère.

A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.

aper. (a) A thick stout paper for inclosing cartridges. (b) A rough tinted paper used for covering walls, and also for making drawings upon.

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.

The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.

a box, or vase with a perforated cover to emit perfumes.

ing, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.

A horseman covered with a cataphract. Archers and slingers, cataphracts, and spears. Milton.

Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, callous skin, etc.

A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.

erty; -- often used by Chaucer in contrast with rent, or income. "For loss of catel may recovered be, But loss of tyme shendeth us," quod he. Chaucer.

A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a net. Spenser.

A hollow way, adapted to cover troops, and facilitate their aproach to a place. Farrow.

Covered, or furnished with, cedars.

To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room. The greater house he ceiled with fir tree. 2 Chron. iii. 5

Covered with wax.

pnoi, first known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have been discovered in Australian rivers. They have lungs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipterygium.

To wax; to cover or close with wax. Wiseman.