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One who, or that which, covers.

Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering over the well's mouth. 2 Sam. xvii. 19.

The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.

A coverlet. All the coverlid was clocth of gold. Tennyson.

The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

A region of country having covers; a hunting country.

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

Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.

Secretly; in private; insidiously.

Secrecy; privacy. [R.]

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

To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sen Covet earnestly the best gifts. 1. Cor. xxii. 31. If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. Shak.

That may be coveted; desirable.

One who covets.

Avarice. [Obs.] Spenser.

Acquisitiveness.

Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense. [Archaic] Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue. Shak. Covetous death bereaved us all, To aggrandize one funeral. Emerson.

In a covetous manner.

desire. [R.] When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak.

brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges. Darwin.