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Cove   /koʊv/   Listen
noun
Cove  n.  
1.
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."
2.
A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain. (U.S.)
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.



Cove  n.  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."



verb
Cove  v. t.  (past & past part. coved; pres. part. coving)  (Arch.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove. "The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs."
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.  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."






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"Cove" Quotes from Famous Books



... anything worth taking away. In consequence of his representations the vessel put out to sea.—The wreck of the Malignant excited some attention at Pictou, near the close of the war. She was a man-of-war bound to Quebec, and late in the fall was wrecked at a place since known as Malignant Cove. The crew came to Pictou and staid through the winter, being provided for through the ...
— An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America • J. P. MacLean

... took it into his head that he would very much like another of these fine, choice animals, so picking up a rope he started off, and wading across to Pengerswick Cove, landed there as usual, thinking he was going to help himself without any trouble and be home again ...
— Cornwall's Wonderland • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... get on without him if you take him to the North," continued this man; "for I can tell ye, stranger, as a friend, I am an older cove than you, I have seen lots of this ere world, and I reckon I have had more dealings with niggers than any man living or dead. I was once employed by General Wade Hampton, for ten years, in doing nothing but breaking 'em in; and everybody knows that the General would not have a ...
— Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom • William and Ellen Craft

... and we were driven before the gale at a furious rate. That night our vessel stuck and went to pieces. Six of us escaped, my father among the rest, and the captain, in a boat, and were thrown upon the shore of an uninhabited island. In the morning there lay floating in a little protected cove of the island barrels of provisions, as pork, fish, bread, and flour, with chests, and numerous fragments of the ship, and portions of her cargo. The captain and sailors at once set about securing all that could possibly be rescued from the ...
— Lizzy Glenn - or, The Trials of a Seamstress • T. S. Arthur

... fairies light On Cassilis Downans[5] dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, [over, pastures] On sprightly coursers prance; Or for Colean the rout is ta'en, [road] Beneath the moon's pale beams; There, up the Cove,[6] to stray an' rove Amang the rocks and streams ...
— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson


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