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adjective

Covert adj.

1.

Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised. "How covert matters may be best disclosed." "Whether of open war or covert guile."

2.

Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook. "Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley."

3.

(Law) 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.

Covert way, (Fort.) See Covered way, under Covered.

Synonyms: Hidden; secret; private; covered; disguised; insidious; concealed. See Hidden.

noun

Covert n.

1.

A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense. "A tabernacle... for a covert from storm." "The highwayman has darted from his covered by the wayside."

2.

(Zool.) One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Covert" Quotes from Famous Books

... in her voice had vanished now. After all she had not changed. What he had supposed was a return of the old cameraderie was but another of her covert sneers. ...

— The Lady of Big Shanty • Frank Berkeley Smith

... them a strange couple. Why they should be mistress and servant was not a matter to be determined upon a first light guess. Indeed, they seemed scarcely such. From dark eye to dark eye there seemed to pass a signal of covert understanding, a signal of doubt, or suspicion, or armed neutrality, yet of ...

— The Law of the Land • Emerson Hough

... on to March; and March, though it blew bitter keen from the North Sea, yet blinked kindly between whiles on the river dell. The mire dried up in the closest covert; life ran in the bare branches, and the air of the afternoon would be suddenly sweet with the fragrance ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI • Robert Louis Stevenson

... mistake me," he replies, with a covert but insolent evasion; "or I had better have said pride, business pride, I have so much of that," and the lips show a sort of sardonic smile. "That is what your brother lacks; I suppose we have no reasonable right to look for it in you, a ...

— Floyd Grandon's Honor • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... with the wisdom of an old owl, "mark the curl of his lip, and the bold, defiant stare of the eye. Mark the covert smile on that face, as if he were really laughing at us now. All those things are significant—mighty significant. You do not dream of the treachery hidden beneath that boyish exterior; but I, sir, can see by his eye that he had rather cut a throat than eat a square meal. The ...

— Frank Merriwell's Bravery • Burt L. Standish

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