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To cover. -- n.

Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances. Dr. H. More.

ard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.

(Mus.) A Turkish instrument of music, with a hollow body covered with skin, over which five strings are stretched. [Written also kussir.]

The organ of insects which covers the mouth beneath, and serves as an under lip. It consists of the second pair of maxillæ, usually closely united in the middle line, but bearing a pair of palpi in most insects. It often consists of a thin anterior part (ligula or palpiger) and a firmer posterior plate (mentum).…

An organ in insects and crustaceans covering the upper part of the mouth, and serving as an upper lip. See Illust. of Hymenoptera.

er lace, lace having warp threads of silk, or silk and cotton, and a weft of silk threads covered with gold (or silver), or with gilt. -- Lace leather, thin, oil-tanned leather suitable for cutting into lacings for machine belts. -- Lace lizard (Zoöl.), a large, aquatic, Australian lizard (Hydrosaurus giganteus), all…

To cover with lacquer. "Lacquer'd chair." Pope.

of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.

The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading.

Having a dense covering of long hair, like the foot of a hare.

A kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat.

Consisting of, or covered with, laminæ, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.

Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.

Wooly; covered with fine long hair, or hairlike filaments.

sails. -- Land blink, a peculiar atmospheric brightness seen from sea over distant snow-covered land in arctic regions. See Ice blink. -- Land breeze. See under Breeze. -- Land chain. See Gunter's chain. -- Land crab (Zoöl.), any one of various species of crabs which live much on the land, and resort to the water…

A four-wheeled covered vehicle, the top of which is divided into two sections which can be let down, or thrown back, in such a manner as to make an open carriage. [Written also landaw.]

Covered with down, or fine soft hair; downy.

The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.

lothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury. Men expect that happiness should drop into their laps. Tillotson.