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Cove \Cove\ (k[=o]v), n. [AS. cofa room; akin to G. koben
pigsty, orig., hut, Icel. kofi hut, and perh. to E. cobalt.]
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1. A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet,
creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
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Vessels which were in readiness for him within
secret coves and nooks. --Holland.
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2. A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess
in the side of a mountain. [U.S.]
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3. (Arch.)
(a) A concave molding.
(b) A member, whose section is a concave curve, used
especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as
around a skylight.
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Cove \Cove\, n. [A gypsy word, covo that man, covi that woman.]
A boy or man of any age or station. [Slang]
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There's a gentry cove here. --Wit's
Recreations
(1654).
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Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drink
Be not filched from us. --Mrs.
Browning.
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Cove \Cove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coved} (k?vd); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Coving}.] (Arch.)
To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in
the form of a cove.
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The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are
rounded into domes and coved roofs. --H.
Swinburne.
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{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.
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Cove \Cove\, v. t. [CF. F. couver, It. covare. See {Covey}.]
To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
[Obs.]
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Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she
[the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel.
--Holland.
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