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Covert Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Covert?
[n] a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something; "they crouched behind the screen"; "under cover of darkness"
[n] a flock of coots [adj] secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; "covert actions by the CIA"; "covert funding for the rebels" [adj] (law) of a wife; under the protection of her husband Synonyms | Synonyms for Covert: backstair | backstairs | black | clandestine | cloak-and-dagger | cloaked | closet(a) | collusive | concealment | conniving | cover | disguised | furtive | hole-and-corner(a) | hugger-mugger | hush-hush | masked | on the quiet(p) | protected | screen | secret | secure | sub-rosa | subterranean | surreptitious | ulterior | under wraps(p) | undercover | underground | under-the-table | undisclosed | unrevealed Related Terms | Find terms related to Covert: abri | abstruse | air-raid shelter | armored | asylum | back-door | backstairs | beclouded | between the lines | blanket | blind | bolt-hole | bomb shelter | bombproof | boscage | bosket | brake | bunker | buried | burrow | by stealth | cache | camouflaged | canebrake | cased | cave | ceiled | ceja | chamisal | chaparral | clandestine | cloak | cloaked | close | clouded | coat | coated | concealed | concealment | coped | coppice | copse | copsewood | corner | couch | cover | coverage | covered | covering | covertly | coverture | cowl | cowled | cowling | cranny | cryptic | cubby | cubbyhole | curtain | curtained | cyclone cellar | dark corner | delitescent | den | disguised | dormant | drape | drapery | dugout | earth | eclipsed | encapsulated | encapsuled | encased | enveloped | enwrapped | esoteric | fallout shelter | feather | feathers | feline | filmed | floored | form | foxhole | frith | funk hole | furtive | furtively | guarded | guise | hackle | hanging | harbor | harborage | haven | hibernating | hid | hidden | hideaway | hideout | hidey hole | hiding | hiding place | hidlings | hole | hole-and-corner | hood | hooded | housed | housing | hugger-mugger | hush-hush | in a cloud | in a fog | in camera | in eclipse | in purdah | in the wings | incommunicado | lair | latent | lodge | loricate | loricated | lurking | mail | mantle | mantled | mask | masked | mew | motte | muffled | mysterious | mystic | niche | nook | obfuscated | obscure | obscured | occult | occulted | packaged | pall | paved | plumage | port | possible | potential | privately | privy | quiet | recess | recondite | refuge | retreat | roofed-in | run | safety zone | sanctuary | screen | screened | scummed | secluded | secluse | secret | secret place | sequestered | sheathed | shelled | shelter | shield | shielded | shifty | shroud | shrouded | skulking | sleeping | slinking | slinky | sly | sneaking | sneaky | speculum | stash | stealthily | stealthy | storm cave | storm cellar | sub rosa | submerged | surreptitious | surreptitiously | swathed | tented | thicket | thickset | trench | tunnel | under an eclipse | under cover | under house arrest | under the surface | under wraps | undercover | undercovert | underground | underhand | underhanded | underlying | under-the-counter | under-the-table | unknown | unmanifested | unobtrusive | veil | veiled | vestment | virtual | walled | walled-in | wrapped | wrapped in clouds See Also | blind | camouflage | concealed | coot | covering | flock | implicit | inexplicit | invisible | shoji | stalking-horse | unseeable Covert In Webster's Dictionary \Cov"ert\ (k?v"?rt), a. [OF. covert, F. couvert, p. p. of
couvrir. See {Cover}, v. t.]
1. Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.
How covert matters may be best disclosed. --Shak.
Whether of open war or covert guile. --Milton
2. Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a
covert nook. -- Wordsworth.
Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley.
--Bacon.
3. (Law) Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme
covert, a married woman who is considered as being under
the protection and control of her husband.
{Covert way}, (Fort.) See {Covered way}, under {Covered}.
Syn: Hidden; secret; private; covered; disguised; insidious;
concealed. See {Hidden}.
\Cov"ert\, n. [OF. See {Covert}, a.] 1. A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense. A tabernacle . . . for a covert from storm. --Is. iv. 6. The highwayman has darted from his covered by the wayside. --Prescott. 2. [Cf. F. couverte.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of {Bird}. |
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