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l'enfie. IVatts .—To conceal from notice or punifliment.— 
Charity (hall cover the multitude of fins, i Peter, iv. S. 
Thou may’ft repent, 
And one bad aft with many deeds well done 
May’ll cover. Milton. 
To Ihelter; to proteft : 
His calm and blamelefs life 
Does with fubftantial blelfednefs abound, 
And the foft wings of peace cover him round. Cowley. 
To incubate ; to brood on.—Natural hiftorians obferve, 
that only the male birds have voices ; that their Pongs 
begin a little before breeding-time, and end a little after; 
that, whilft the hen is covering her eggs, the male gene¬ 
rally takes his (land upon a neighbouring bough within 
her hearing, and by that means amufes and diverts her 
with his fongs during the whole time of her fitting. Addi- 
fon. —To copulate with a female. To wear the hat, orgar- 
xnentof the head, as a mark of fuperiority or independence. 
—That king had conferred the honour of grandee upon 
him, which was of no other advantage or fignification to 
him, thantobeccr/errii in the prefence of that king. Dryd. 
CO'VER, /. Any thing that is laid over another.— 
The fountains could be ftrengthened no other way than 
by making a ftrong cover or arch over them. Burnet. 
Oreftes’ bulky rage, 
Unfatisfied with margins clofely w'rit, 
Foams o’er the covers, and not finifh’d yet. Dryden. 
A concealment; a fereen; a veil; a fuperficial appear¬ 
ance, under which fomething is hidden.—The truth and 
reafon of things may be artificially and effeftually infi- 
nuated, under the cover either of a real faft or of a fup- 
pofed one. L’EJlrange .— Shelter; defence from weather. 
■—In the mean time, by being compelled to lodge in the 
field, which grew now to be very cold, whilft his army 
was under cover, they might be forced to retire. Clarendon. 
“He covers me with his wings, and bites me with 
his bill.” That is, he (hews me fome favour, that he 
may have the better opportunity of opprefiing me in the 
conclufion. Said of ufurers and money-lenders, who thus 
prey upon the vitals of induftrious tradefmen, whom they 
crufh beneath tlieir talons, often in moments when they 
are foaring into profperity. 
CO'VER-SH AME, f. Some appearance ufed to con¬ 
ceal infamy. — Does he put on holy garments for a cover- 
Jhame of lewdnefs ? Dryden. 
CO'VERCHIEF, f. Kcouvrechef, Fr. a cover-head. 1 
A head-drefs. 
CO'VERCLE, f. [ couvercle, Fr.] A cover or lid. 
COWERDALE (Miles), a celebrated Englifh divine, 
born in Yorkfhire, and bred at Cambridge. He became 
an Auftin friar, but afterwards turned proteftant at the 
reformation, and was made bifhop of Exeter by Ed¬ 
ward VI. He aflifted William Tindal in the Englifh ver- 
fion of the bible publilhed in 1537, and afterwards re¬ 
viled and correfted the edition of it in a larger volume, 
with notes, in 1540. This work has always been in efteem. 
Upon the change of religion in queen Mary’s reign, bifhop 
Coverdale was ejefted from his fee of Exeter, and thrown 
into prifon ; out of which he was releafed at the earneft 
requeft of the king of Denmark; and, as a great favour, 
permitted to go into banilhment. Soon after Elizabeth’s 
acceflion to the throne, he returned from his exile, but 
refilled to be reftored to his bifhopric, on account of his 
attachment to the principles of the puritans. When he 
was become both old and poor, Grindal, bifhop of Lon¬ 
don, gave him the living of St. Magnus, at the bridge 
foot. Here he preached for about two years; but not 
coming up to the terms of conformity then required, he 
was obliged to relinquilh his parilh a little before his 
death. He was much admired by the puritans, who 
flocked to him in great numbers, while he officiated at 
St, Magnus, which he did without the Habits. He died 
the 20tli of May, 1567, being eighty-one years of age. 
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CO'VERI-PORUM, a fortrefs of Hindooftan, in the 
Myfore country, fituated on the weft fide of the Cau- 
very : fixty miles north-north-eaft of Coimbetore, and 
fixty-five louth-eaft of Seringapatam. 
COWERING, f. Drefs; vefture; any thing fpread 
over another.—The women took and fpread a covering 
over the well’s mouth. 2Saw.xvii. 19. 
Through her flelh methinks is feen 
The brighter foul that dwells within; 
Our eyes the fubtle covering pafs, 
And fee the lily through its glafs. Cowley. 
COWERLET,/. \couvrelit, Fr.] The outermoft of the 
bed-clothes; that under which all the reft are concealed : 
Lay her in lilies and in violets, 
And filken curtains over her difplay. 
And odour’d flieets, and arras coverlets. Spenfer. 
COU'ERON, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Savenay, (itualed on the Loire : two leagues and 
a half weft of Nantes. 
COVER'SED. See Cosecant. 
COWERT, y. [from cover-, couvert, Fr.] A Ihelter ; 
a defence.—There lhall be a tabernacle for a lhadow in 
the day-time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, 
and .for a covert from ftorm and rain. Ifaiah , iv. 6.—A 
thicket, or hiding-place : 
Deep into fome thick covert would I run, 
Impenetrable to the liars or fun. Dryden. 
COWERT, adj. [couvert, Fr.] Sheltered; not open ; 
not expofed.—The fox is a beaft very prejudicial to, the 
hulbandman, efpecially in places that are near foreft- 
woods and covert places. Mortimer. 
Together let us beat this ample field,' 
Try what the open, what the covert yield. Pope. 
Secret; hidden; private; infidious: 
By what beft way, 
Whether of open war, or covert guile, 
We now debate. Milton. 
COWERT, adj. \_couvert, Fr.] The ftate of a woman 
fheltered by marriage under her hulband. 
COWERT-WAY,yi in fortification, a fpace of ground 
level with the adjoining country, on the outer edge of 
the fofs, ranging quite round all the works. This is 
otherwife called the corridor, and has a parapet with its 
banquette and glacis, which form the height of the para¬ 
pet. It is fometimes called the connterjcarp, becaul'e it 
is on the edge of the fcarp. One of the greateft difficul¬ 
ties in a fiege, is to make a lodgment on the covert-way; 
becaufe it is ufual for the belieged to palifade it along 
the middle, and undermine it on all fides. 
COWERTLY, adv. Secretly; clofely; in private; 
with privacy.—Amongft the poets, Perfius covertly ftrikes 
at Nero ; fome of whole verfes he recites with lcorn and 
indignation. Dryden. 
Yet ftili Aragnol (fo his foe was bight) 
Lay lurking covertly him to furprife. Spenfer. 
COWERTNESS,/ Secrecy; privacy: 
COWERTURE, J'. Shelter; defence; not expofure. 
—It may be it is rather the {hade, or other coverture, that 
they take liking in, than the virtue of the herb. Bacon. 
He faw their ffiame, that fought 
Vain covertures. Milton. 
COWERTURE, f. in law, particularly applied to 
the ftate and condition of a married woman, who is fub 
potejlate viri ; and therefore difabled to contraft with any, 
to the damage bf herlelf or hulband, without his con- 
fent and privity, or his allowance and confirmation there¬ 
of. When a woman is married, the is called a feme covert-, 
and whatever is done concerning her, during the mar¬ 
riage, is laid to be during the coverture: all things that 
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