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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,429 words match “VERT”

COVERTLY adv.
Secretly; in private; insidiously.
COVERTNESS n.
Secrecy; privacy. [R.]
COVERTURE n. 2 definitions
Covering; shelter; defence; hiding. Protected by walls or other like coverture. Woodward. Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak.
CULVERT n.
A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.
CULVERTAIL n.
Dovetail.
CULVERTAILED a.
United or fastened by a dovetailed joint.
DISCOVERT a. 2 definitions
Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.
DISCOVERTURE n. 2 definitions
A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband.
DIVERT v. 3 definitions
To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course. That crude apple that diverted Eve. Milton.
DIVERTER n.
One who, or that which, diverts, turns off, or pleases.
DIVERTIBLE a.
Capable of being diverted.
DIVERTICLE n. 2 definitions
A diverticulum.
DIVERTICULAR a.
Pertaining to a diverticulum.
DIVERTICULUM n.
A blind tube branching out of a longer one.
DIVERTIMENTO n.
) A light and pleasing composition.
DIVERTING a.
Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n.
DIVERTISE v.
To divert; to entertain. [Obs.] Dryden.
DIVERTISEMENT n.
Diversion; amusement; recreation. [R.]
DIVERTISSEMENT n.
A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play. Smart.
DIVERTIVE a.
Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting. Things of a pleasant and divertive nature. Rogers.
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