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To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest. All the clouds that lowered upon our house. Shak.

A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.

To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.

Covered with clay; miry.

A place of exercise with covered walks, in the suburbs of Athens, where Aristotle taught philosophy.

ize of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail.

A European fish (Peristethus cataphractum), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead.

To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.

A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg.

Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.

Protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates.

rica, belonging to the genus Mammea (M. Americana); also, its fruit. The latter is large, covered with a thick, tough ring, and contains a bright yellow pulp of a pleasant taste and fragrant scent. It is often called mammee apple.

A covering placed over the upper part of a horse's head.

To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.

Covered with hairs or pubescence so platted together and interwoven as to form a mass easily removed.

A genus of edentates, covered with large, hard, triangular scales, with sharp edges that overlap each other like tiles on a roof. They inhabit the warmest parts of Asia and Africa, and feed on ants. Called also Scaly anteater. See Pangolin.

The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports. [Written also mantle.]

A kind of veil, covering the head and falling down upon the shoulders; -- worn in Spain, Mexico, etc.

rment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope. [The] children are clothed with mantles of satin. Bacon. The green mantle of the standing pool. Shak. Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree. Burns.

To stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron.