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An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. Tennyson. Golds…

To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs. [Obs.] Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel. Holland.

A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spiculæ are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge. [Written also couhage, cowage, and cowitch.]

A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.

f the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.

Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.

The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster. Knight.

To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle. There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pool. Shak.

of the sea, or of a river. Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore. Cowper. They discovered a certain creek, with a shore. Acts xxvii. 39.

To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. Morton (1632).

The top line of a slope or embankment. Crest tile, a tile made to cover the ridge of a roof, fitting upon it like a saddle. -- Interior crest (Fort.), the highest line of the parapet.

Of or relating to hair; as, a crinitory covering. T. Hook.

That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat. Till some safe crisis authorize their skill. Dryden.

Having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal thrasher.

To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.

That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts.

An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.

A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc. Raymond.

To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power. Her who fairest does appear, Crown her queen of all the year. Dryden. Crown him, and say, "Long live our emperor." Shak.