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An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.

The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure.

The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; -- also called booming.

self open to, to expose one's self to, as to an accusation. -- To lay open, to open; to uncover; to expose; to reveal. -- To lay over, to spread over; to cover. -- To lay out. (a) To expend. Macaulay. (b) To display; to discover.

The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.

; a subject. Like master, like man. Old Proverb. The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor. Blackstone.

Specifically: The part of a page at the edge left uncovered in writing or printing.

Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.

epresented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture.

That part of the Mass which the priest reads before uncovering the chalice to offer up the elements for consecration.

A condition of the penis in which the prepuce can not be drawn back so as to uncover the glans penis.

A genus of plants of the order Filices or ferns. The fructifications are in uncovered roundish points, called sori, scattered over the inferior surface of the frond or leaf. There are numerous species.

peii, an ancient city of Italy, buried by an eruption of Vesuvius in 79 a. d., and partly uncovered by modern excavations.

Left uncovered, as land by recession of water. Bouvier.

A leaving dry; a recession of the sea or other water, leaving dry land; land left uncovered by such recession. Burrill.

Act of disclosing or uncovering something concealed. [Obs.] Boyle.

The wheather; the climate. Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Shak.

The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards. Knight.

To divest of clothing; to uncover. Before the folk herself strippeth she. Chaucer. Strip your sword stark naked. Shak.

ee under Ground. -- Organ swell (Mus.), a certain number of pipes inclosed in a box, the uncovering of which by means of a pedal produces increased sound. -- Swell shark (Zoöl.), a small shark (Scyllium ventricosum) of the west coast of North America, which takes in air when caught, and swells up like a swellfish.…