About The Word Cove
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Cove Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Cove?
[n] a small inlet
[n] small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain Synonyms | Synonyms for Cove: Related Terms | Find terms related to Cove: abri | Adamite | alcove | antre | apse | arcade | arcature | arch | arched roof | archway | arm | armlet | bastard | bay | bayou | being | belt | bight | bird | boca | body | bugger | bunker | burrow | camber | carrel | cat | cave | cavern | ceilinged roof | chap | character | concameration | concha | corner | cranny | creature | creek | cubby | cubbyhole | cubicle | cupola | customer | dome | duck | dugout | earthling | estuary | euripus | feller | fellow | fjord | foxhole | frith | geodesic dome | grot | grotto | groundling | gulf | gut | guy | hand | harbor | head | hole | homo | human | human being | igloo | individual | inglenook | inlet | jasper | joker | keystone | kyle | lad | lair | life | living soul | loch | man | mortal | mouth | narrow | narrow seas | narrows | natural harbor | niche | nook | nose | ogive | one | oriel | party | person | personage | personality | pitchhole | reach | recess | recession | road | roads | roadstead | roomlet | sewer | single | skewback | slough | snuggery | somebody | someone | soul | sound | span | strait | straits | stud | subterrane | subway | tellurian | terran | tunnel | vault | vaulting | voussoir | warren | worldling See Also | cave | inlet | lough | recess Cove In Webster's Dictionary \Cove\ (k[=o]v), n. [AS. cofa room; akin to G. koben
pigsty, orig., hut, Icel kofi hut, and perh. to E. cobalt.]
1. A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet,
creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
Vessels which were in readiness for him within
secret coves and nooks. --Holland.
2. A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess
in the side of a mountain. [U.S.]
3. (Arch.)
(a) A concave molding.
(b) A member, whose section is a concave curve, used
especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as
around a skylight.
\Cove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coved} (k?vd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Coving}.] (Arch.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove. The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs. --H. Swinburne. {Coved ceiling}, a ceiling, the part of which next the wail is constructed in a cove. {Coved vault}, a vault composed of four coves meeting in a central point, and therefore the reverse of a groined vault. \Cove\, v. t. [CF. F. couver, It. covare. See {Covey}.] To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs. [Obs.] Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel. --Holland. \Cove\, n. [A gypsy word, covo that man, covi that woman.] A boy or man of any age or station. [Slang] There's a gentry cove here. --Wit's Recreations (1654). Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drink Be not filched from us. --Mrs. Browning. |
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