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Virtue; power. See Virtue. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Virtuous; powerful. [Obs.] Spenser.

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

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

n opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber. [Obs.] Spenser. "The cave's inmost overture." Chapman.

To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.

Capable of being, or liable to be, overturned or subverted.

One who overturns. South.

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

; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural. [He] made the like advances to the dissenters. Swift.

To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body. But what if carrying sail capsize the boat Byron.

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

lty; ease; as, the facility of an operation. The facility with which government has been overturned in France. Burke .

To overturn; to demolish; to ruin. -- To fling in, to throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work. -- To fling off, to baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. Addison. -- To fling open, to throw open; to open suddenly or w…

re to capture or assault; to lay wait for. [Colloq.] Bp Hall. -- To lay in for, to make overtures for; to engage or secure the possession of. [Obs.] "I have laid in for these." Dryden. -- To lay on, to strike; to beat; to attack. Shak. -- To lay out, to purpose; to plan; as, he lays out to make a journey.…

Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.

Offer; proposal; overture. [Obs.] More offertures and advantages to his crown. Milton.

Strictly: A band suitable for the performance of symphonies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos.

An upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a carriage.

To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down. His wife overthrew the table. Jer. Taylor.