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eek, or bay; a recess in the shore. Vessels which were in readiness for him within secret coves and nooks. Holland.

A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.

Fit; proper; suitable. [Obs.] "A covenable day." Wyclif (Mark vi. 21).

Fitly; suitably. [Obs.] "Well and covenably." Chaucer.

parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant. 1 Sam. xviiii. 3. Let there be covenants drawn between us. Shak. If we conclude a peace, It shall be with such strict and severe covenants As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby. Shak.

The person in whose favor a covenant is made.

One who makes a covenant.

Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters. Be they covenanting traitors, Or the brood of false Argyle Aytoun.

The party who makes a covenant. Burrill.

See Covinous, and Covin.

A convent or monastery. [Obs.] Bale. Covent Garden, a large square in London, so called because originally it was the garden of a monastery.

A town in the county of Warwick, England. To send to Coventry, to exclude from society; to shut out from social intercourse, as for ungentlemanly conduct. -- Coventry blue, blue thread of a superior dye, made at Coventry, England, and used for embroidery.

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

A catch crop planted, esp. in orchards. as a protection to the soil in winter, as well as for the benefit of the soil when plowed under in spring.

The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."

Something used to conceal infamy. [Obs.] Dryden.

The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance.

A covering for the head. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A small cover; a lid. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden. Covered way (Fort.), a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See Illust. of Ra…