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<p><b>5.</b> That portion of a slate, tile, or shingle, which is hidden by the overlap of the course above.

<i>Knight.</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Steam Engine)</fld> <def>The lap of a slide valve.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>couvert</ets>.]</ety> <def>A tablecloth, and the other table furniture; esp., the table furniture for the use of one person at a meal; <as>as, <ex>covers</ex> were laid for fifty guests</as>.</def>

<cs><col>To break cover</col>, <cd>to start from a covert or lair; -- said of game.</cd> -- <col>Under cover</col>, <cd>in an envelope, or within a letter; -- said of a written message.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>Letters . . . dispatched <b>under cover</b> to her ladyship. <i>Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cover</h1> <Xpage=336>

<hw>Cov"er</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Coverchief</h1> <Xpage=336>

<hw>Cov"er*chief</hw> <tt>(ch?f)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Kerchef</er>.]</ety> <def>A covering for the head.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Covercle</h1> <Xpage=336>

<hw>Cov"er*cle</hw> <tt>(k?v"?r-k'l)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>covercle</ets>, F. <ets>couvercle</ets>, fr. L. <ets>co\'94perculum</ets> fr. <ets>co\'94perire</ets>. See <er>cover</er>] <def>A small cover; a lid.</def> <mark>[>Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Covered</h1> <Xpage=336>

<hw>Cov"ered</hw> <tt>(k?v"?rd)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden.</def>

<cs><col>Covered way</col> <fld>(Fort.)</fld>, <cd>a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See <i>Illust</i>. of <er>Ravelin</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Coverer</h1> <Xpage=336>

<hw>Cov"er*er</hw> <tt>(-?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, covers.</def>

<h1>Covering</h1> <Xpage=336>

<hw>Cov"er*ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc.</def>

<blockquote>Noah removed the <b>covering</b> of the ark. <i>Gen. viii. 13.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no <b>covering</b> in the cold. <i>Job. xxiv. 7.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A <b>covering</b> over the well's mouth. <i>2 Sam. xvii. 19.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Coverlet</h1> <Xpage=336>

<hw>Cov"er*let</hw> <tt>(k?v"?r-l?t)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>couvre-lit</ets>; <ets>couvrir</ets> to cover + <ets>lit</ets> bed, fr. L. <ets>lectus</ets> bed. See <er>Cover</er>.]</ety> <def>The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture.</def>

<blockquote>Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras <b>coverlets</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>