Defn: Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a
wrapper, clothing, etc.
Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13.
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no
covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7.
A covering over the well's mouth. 2 Sam. xvii. 19.
COVERLET Cov"er*let (kv"r-lt), n. Etym: [F. couvre-lit; couvrir to cover + lit bed, fr. L. lectus bed. See Cover.]
Defn: The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
COVERLID
Cov"er*lid (-ld), n.
Defn: A coverlet.
All the coverlid was clocth of gold. Tennyson.
COVER-POINT
Cov"er-point` (-point!), n.
Defn: The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
COVERSED SINE Co*versed" sine (k-vrst" sn`). Etym: [Co- (=co- in co- sine) + versed sine.] (Geom.)
Defn: The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See
Illust. of Functions.
COVER-SHAME
Cov"er-shame` (-shm`), n.