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

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

A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband.

The state or condition of being incontrovertible.

Not controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute; indisputable. Sir T. Browne. -- In*con`tro*ver"ti*ble*ness, n. -- In*con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.

To turn or bend inward. "Introverted toes." Cowper.

Poverty. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ndigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. "Swathed in numblest poverty." Keble. The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21.

ryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

Of or pertaining to the protovertebræ.

To turn back.

In a state of retroversion.

the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.

Incontrovertible.

Incontrovertibly.

ert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor.

To beat down; to overthrow. [Obs.] The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls. Edw. Hall.

Admission to sexual intercourse. During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. Blackstone.

actory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; - - with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty. To account of, to esteem; to prize; to value. Now used only in the passive. "I account of her beauty." Shak. Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century. Canon Robinson.

To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.