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To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.

With head uncovered; bareheaded. When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. Herbert.

Having the back uncovered; as, a barebacked horse.

With the face uncovered; not masked. "You will play barefaced." Shak.

Having the head uncovered; as, a bareheaded girl.

To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover. [Obs.] Shak.

A respectful uncovering of the head. He that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks. Fuller.

and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing. A rotten carcass of a boat. Shak.

; as, a cosmetical preparation. First, robed in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncovered, the cosmetic powers. Pope.

An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. Tennyson. Golds…

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

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

To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or 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…

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

To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover. The shells being broken, . . . the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty. Woodward.

The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure. He feels it [his secret] beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure. D. Webster.

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

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

To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle. [R.] Dr. H. More.

tion, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding. Thou . . . by evasions thy crime uncoverest more. Milton.