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An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.

, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.

Covered with a crust; as, crustated basalt.

Incrusted; covered with, or containing, crust; as, old, crusted port wine.

Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood. Sir T. Browne.

n cuerpo, without full dress, so that the shape of the Body is exposed; hence, naked or uncovered. Exposed in cuerpo to their rage. Hudibras.

An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.

make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.

Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched.

A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.

A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.

Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.

That may be caught or discovered; apprehensible. [Obs.] Petty. -- Dep`re*hen"si*ble*ness, n. [Obs.]

a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account. Plain good intention . . . is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last. Burke. Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. Pope.

me of; to assign to its true place in a system; as, to determine an unknown or a newly discovered plant or its name.

The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground. Woodward.

Resembling a dew-covered surface; appearing as if covered with dew.

To uncover. [Obs.] Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church. Abp. Grindal.

Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.

An uncovered place or part. [Obs.] At discovert, uncovered. [Obs.] Chaucer.