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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…

Covered or bound in yellow paper. Yellow-covered literature, cheap sensational novels and trashy magazines; -- formerly so called from the usual color of their covers. [Colloq. U. S.] Bartlett.

aim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

Having the fruit covered with spines.

Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.

walk or passage; -- applied to passages of various kinds. The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble. T. Warton.

by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans. PJC

n thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain.

us compounds, usually relating to seed or blood vessels, or to something contained in, or covered by, a vessel.

ing fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. Brande & C.

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.

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

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.