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

l; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull.

t throw of the dice in which the total is two, three, or twelve, in which case the caster loses.

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine. [Written also kretinine.]

Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.

Marked with closely set transverse furrows.

Crawling, or moving close to the ground. "Every creeping thing." Gen. vi. 20.

A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.

The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.

Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks.

A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm. A few small crofts of stone-encumbered ground. Wordsworth.

To cower or cuddle together, as from fear 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.

Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.

To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.

To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear. Now crouch like a cur. Beau. & Fl.

A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other. A crowd of islands. Pope.

The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.

The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.

A stall for cattle. [Obs.] I would rather have such . . . .in cubor kennel than in my closet or at my table. Landor.

To embrace closely; to foundle. Forby.