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A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks. Fairholt.

A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers.

A covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger. Chaucer.

Covered with a mitten or mittens. "Mittened hands." Whittier.

To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]

Covered with, or wearing, a moccasin or moccasins. "Moccasined feet." Harper's Mag.

A large leather flap which covers the saddletree. [Western U.S.]

To cover with mold or soil. [R.]

Covered or filled with mold; consisting of, or resembling, mold.

which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or multivalve.

An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.

An edible fungus (Morchella esculenta), the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. It is used as food, and for flavoring sauces. [Written also moril.]

To cover with a morphew. [Obs.]

ally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation. Mortgaging their lives to covetise. Spenser. I myself an mortgaged to thy will. Shak.

To cover or overgrow with moss. An oak whose boughs were mossed with age. Shak.

isan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss. [Political Slang, U.S.]

A small plate covering the armpit in armor of the 14th century and later.

A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Myosurus), in which the prolonged receptacle is covered with imbricating achenes, and so resembles the tail of a mouse.

A viscid fluid secreted by mucous membranes, which it serves to moisten and protect. It covers the lining membranes of all the cavities which open externally, such as those of the mouth, nose, lungs, intestinal canal, urinary passages, etc.

A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.