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Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored. "Columbine innocency." Bacon.

To make a low repeated cry or sound, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves. The stockdove only through the forest cooes, Mournfully hoarse. Thomson.

A shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves. Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, In hurdled cotes. Milton.

or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. Forby. A dove to fly home her nest and croodle there. C. Kingsley.

A dove. "Culver in the falcon's fist." Spenser.

A dovecote.

Dovetail.

United or fastened by a dovetailed joint.

The ringdove or wood pigeon. Scarce with cushat's homely song can vie. Sir W. Scott.

Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey. Cussans.

To separate (a pair). [R.] I have . . . dispaired two doves. Beau. & Fl.

A dove. [Scot.]

Like a dove; harmless; innocent. "Joined with dovish simplicity." Latimer.

A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war. On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel . . . at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal. Cook (First Voyage).…

A dove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

th to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male. As patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed. Shak.

To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.

The last cinders obtained in the fining process. Raymond. Foxtail saw, a dovetail saw. -- Foxtail wedging. See Fox wedge, under Fox.

in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice.

ssage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit. Knowest thou the way to Dover Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath. Shak. Opening a gate for a long war. Knolles.