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Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised. How covert matters may be best disclosed. Shak. Whether of open war or covert guile. Milton

Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.

Secretly; in private; insidiously.

Secrecy; privacy. [R.]

Covering; shelter; defence; hiding. Protected by walls or other like coverture. Woodward. Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak.

Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.

A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband.

Admission to sexual intercourse. During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. Blackstone.

A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint.

To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.

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."

The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the tickets or coverts of a forest. Spelman. Cowell.

Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover.

Having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal thrasher.

That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts.

to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency. The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture. Abbott.

To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow. Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, elud…

An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter. Buzzing emissaries fill the ears Of listening crowds with jealousies and fears. Dryden.

A woman. Burrill. Feme covert (Law), a married woman. See Covert, a., 3. -- Feme sole (Law), a single or unmarried woman; a woman who has never been married, or who has been divorced, or whose husband is dead. -- Feme sole trader or merchant (Eng. Law), a married woman, by the custom of London, engages in business on…