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Having the integument, or skin, hard, or covered with hard plates.

Having the surface closely covered with hairs, like a brush.

Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy. Law (Farmer's Veter. Adviser).

To form a scum; to become covered with scum. Also used figuratively. Life, and the interest of life, have stagnated and scummed over. A. K. H. Boyd.

Covered with scum; of the nature of scum. Sir P. Sidney.

Having or producing scurf; covered with scurf; resembling scurf.

Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy. "Whatsoever man . . . be scurvy or scabbed." lev. xxi. 18, 20.

Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales.

Having the tarsi covered with broad transverse scales, or scutella; -- said of certain birds.

Having the anterior surface of the tarsus covered with scutella, or transverse scales, in the form of incomplete bands terminating at a groove on each side; -- said of certain birds.

An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy- armed infantry.

A large American holothurian (Lophothuria Fabricii) having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.

Any fish of the genus Diodon, and allied genera, whose body is covered with spines. See Illust. under Diodon.

Great. -- Privy seal. See under Privy, a. -- Seal lock, a lock in which the keyhole is covered by a seal in such a way that the lock can not be opened without rupturing the seal. Seal manual. See under Manual, a. -- Seal ring, a ring having a seal engraved on it, or ornamented with a device resembling a seal; a sig…

A thing not discovered; what is unknown or unexplained; a mystery. All secrets of the deep, all nature's works. Milton

A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.

Sprinkled or sown; -- said of field, or a charge, when strewed or covered with small charges.

Thickly covered or sown, as with seeds. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Half hidden or half covered; said of the head of an insect when half covered by the shield of the thorax.

Covered with very soft hairs pressed close to the surface; as, a sericeous leaf.