Cove /(kōv)/
Cove
n.
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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.
- A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain. [U.S.]
- A concave molding. (Arch.)
Cove
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Coved; p. pr. & vb. n. Coving
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To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove. (Arch.)
The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs.
Phrases & Compounds
- 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.
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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.
Cove
n.
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A boy or man of any age or station. [Slang]
There's a gentry cove here.
Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drink Be not filched from us.