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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.

e certain point; to direct; to incline. "Bend thine ear to supplication." Milton. Towards Coventry bend we our course. Shak. Bending her eyes . . . upon her parent. Sir W. Scott.

Not angelical. [R.] "Disangelical nature." Coventry.

l favor; to put out of the good graces of any one. A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry. Pepys.

Failure or refusal to comply; noncompliance. A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my lord chancellor. Pepys.

Pertaining to, or suited for, a hermit. Coventry.

uality or state of being prepollent; superiority of power; predominance; prevalence. [R.] Coventry.

One who leads a rural life. Coventry.

d in rags and tatters. No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march with them through Coventry, that's flat. Shak.

Of inflexible honesty and fidelity; -- a term derived from the true, or Coventry, blue, formerly celebrated for its unchanging color. See True blue, under Blue.