Defn: 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
Cove, v. t. Etym: [CF. F. couver, It. covare. See Covey.]
Defn: 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
Cove, n. Etym: [A gypsy word, covo that man, covi that woman.]
Defn: 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.
COVELLINE; COVELLITE Co*vel"line (k-vl"ln), Co*vel"lite (-lt), n. Etym: [After Covelli, the discoverer.] (Min.)
Defn: A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; — hence called indigo copper.
COVENABLE
Cov"e*na*ble (kv"-n-b'l), a. Etym: [OF. covenable, F. convenable. See
Covenant.]
Defn: Fit; proper; suitable. [Obs.] "A covenable day." Wyclif (Mark vi. 21).
COVENABLY
Cov"e*na*bly (kv"-n-bly), adv.