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One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. B. Jonson.

Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question. -- Con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.

One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist. How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic! Campbell.

A joint sovereign.

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

A catch crop planted, esp. in orchards. as a protection to the soil in winter, as well as for the benefit of the soil when plowed under in spring.

The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."

Something used to conceal infamy. [Obs.] Dryden.

The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance.

A covering for the head. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A small cover; a lid. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden. Covered way (Fort.), a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See Illust. of Ra…

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.