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A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair.

The quality of being antique; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship. We may discover something venerable in the antiqueness of the work. Addison.

g in the same sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself." "He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen."

A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setæ; the sea mouse.

A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setæ, but is without shelly plates.

Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasciæ which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia.

To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure. Appareled in celestial light. Wordsworth.

and sugar. Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence; as, I make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory.

The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.

the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.

A wagon or cart, usually heavy and without springs, and often covered. [Oriental]

Covered with, or composed of, soft, loose hairs or fibers, so as to resemble a cobweb; cobwebby.

A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower. Sir P. Sidney.

Containing copses of trees or shrubs; covered with shrubs. Bartram.

An arched or covered passageway or avenue.

Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.

Made with an arch or curve; covered with an arch; as, an arched door.

A mode of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering. Chambers.

n which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; -- so called because it was covered with sand.