Covert
['kʌvət;'kəʊvɜːt] or ['kovɝt]
Definition
(noun.) 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.) (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband; 'a woman covert' .
Typist: Ruth--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.
(v. t.) Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.
(v. t.) 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.
(a.) A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.
(a.) 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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Shelter, refuge, asylum, harbor, sanctuary, retreat, defence.
a. Hidden, concealed, secret, disguised, clandestine, underhand, sly, insidious, stealthy.
Typist: Marcus
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See COVER_and_SECRET]
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Examples
- As he watched her with another covert look, he saw a certain ambitious triumph in her face which no assumed coldness could conceal. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Yes; and he was up again at eight to ride to covert. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Sometimes we passed whole days under the leafy covert of the forest with our books and music. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A thick wood skirted the meadow-land in another direction; but they could not have gained that covert for the same reason. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- In vain Amy telegraphed the word 'talk', tried to draw her out, and administered covert pokes with her foot. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Her mother ended with a look of contempt and covert triumph, which for a moment awakened the suspicions of Idris. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A covert glance at her face, as he walked beside her, showed him that she had not expected his ready assent to that proposition. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No, not if it were to be by the side of Barton covert, and they were kept watching for two hours together. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- As it was, he took her words for a covert judgment, and was certain that she thought his sketch detestable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Our children, freed from the bondage of winter, bounded before us; pursuing the deer, or rousing the pheasants and partridges from their coverts. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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