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Closed by a lid or cover, as the capsules of the mosses.

Having the form of a lid or cover.

ted by bony plates, which protects the gills of most fishes and some amphibians; the gill cover; the gill lid.

A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface.

A semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, -- found in old fortresses.

Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks. [Poetic] Collins.

A genus of plectognath fishes having the body covered with solid, immovable, bony plates. It includes the trunkfishes.

Above, or higher than, in place or position, with the idea of covering; -- opposed to Ant: under; as, clouds are over our heads; the smoke rises over the city. The mercy seat that is over the testimony. Ex. xxx. 6. Over them gleamed far off the crimson banners of morning. Longfellow.

To cover as with a canopy. Shak.

To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken. Those clouds that overcast your morn shall fly. Dryden.

To cover or overspread with clouds; to becloud; to overcast.

To cover up. Shak.

Covered over. [Obs.] Spenser.

To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm. The northern nations overflowed all Christendom. Spenser.

To cover with a frieze, or as with a frieze. E. Hall.

To cover. [Obs.] Chapman.

Overstocked, or overgrown, or covered, with grass. [Obs.] Spenser.

To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank. The green . . . is rough and overgrown. Sir W. Scott.

To hele or cover over. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Covered over; ornamented with hangings. Carlyle.