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Secretly; in private; insidiously.

Secrecy; privacy. [R.]

Covering; shelter; defence; hiding. Protected by walls or other like coverture. Woodward. Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak.

One who disapproves.

To uncover. [Obs.] Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church. Abp. Grindal.

The quality of being discoverable. [R.] Carlyle.

Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.

One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh.

Discovery. [Obs.]

Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.

Discovery. [Obs.]

The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.

= Columbus Day, above.

One who disproves or confutes.

and (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic.

usiness to purchase cattle, and drive them to market. Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so they sell bullocks. Shak.

See Impoverish.

ate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate. Blackstone. Common of estovers. See under Common, n.

The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder. Dunglison.

One who believes in or practices free-love.