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To cover, smear, or fill with loam.

To drive to shelter; to track to covert. The deer is lodged; I have tracked her to her covert. Addison.

Abiding place; harbor; cover. Fair bosom . . . the lodging of delight. Spenser. Lodging house, a house where lodgings are provided and let. -- Lodging room, a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.

A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos.

To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.

The act of loricating; the protecting substance put on; a covering of scales or plates.

more or less complete paralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.

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.

lly an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after. Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. Deut. xii. 15. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matt. v. 28. The spirit that dwelleth in u…

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.