Covert \Cov"ert\, n. [OF. See Covert, a.]
1. A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.
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A tabernacle . . . for a covert from storm. --Is.
iv. 6.
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The highwayman has darted from his covered by the
wayside. --Prescott.
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2. [Cf. F. couverte.] (Zool.) One of the special feathers
covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of
a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Covert \Cov"ert\ (k?v"?rt), a. [OF. covert, F. couvert, p. p. of
couvrir. See Cover, v. t.]
1. Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.
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How covert matters may be best disclosed. --Shak.
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Whether of open war or covert guile. --Milton
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2. Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a
covert nook. -- Wordsworth.
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Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley.
--Bacon.
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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.
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Covert way, (Fort.) See Covered way, under Covered.
Syn: Hidden; secret; private; covered; disguised; insidious;
concealed. See Hidden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
covert
adj 1: secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or
shown or avowed; "covert actions by the CIA"; "covert
funding for the rebels" [ant: overt]
2: of a wife; under the protection of her husband
n 1: a flock of coots
2: a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something;
"they crouched behind the screen"; "under cover of
darkness" [syn: screen, cover, concealment]
WordNet (r) 2.0
224 Moby Thesaurus words for "covert":
abri, abstruse, air-raid shelter, armored, asylum, back-door,
backstairs, beclouded, between the lines, blanket, blind,
bolt-hole, bomb shelter, bombproof, boscage, bosket, brake, bunker,
buried, burrow, by stealth, cache, camouflaged, canebrake, cased,
cave, ceiled, ceja, chamisal, chaparral, clandestine, cloak,
cloaked, close, clouded, coat, coated, concealed, concealment,
coped, coppice, copse, copsewood, corner, couch, cover, coverage,
covered, covering, covertly, coverture, cowl, cowled, cowling,
cranny, cryptic, cubby, cubbyhole, curtain, curtained,
cyclone cellar, dark corner, delitescent, den, disguised, dormant,
drape, drapery, dugout, earth, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled,
encased, enveloped, enwrapped, esoteric, fallout shelter, feather,
feathers, feline, filmed, floored, form, foxhole, frith, funk hole,
furtive, furtively, guarded, guise, hackle, hanging, harbor,
harborage, haven, hibernating, hid, hidden, hideaway, hideout,
hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hidlings, hole, hole-and-corner,
hood, hooded, housed, housing, hugger-mugger, hush-hush,
in a cloud, in a fog, in camera, in eclipse, in purdah,
in the wings, incommunicado, lair, latent, lodge, loricate,
loricated, lurking, mail, mantle, mantled, mask, masked, mew,
motte, muffled, mysterious, mystic, niche, nook, obfuscated,
obscure, obscured, occult, occulted, packaged, pall, paved,
plumage, port, possible, potential, privately, privy, quiet,
recess, recondite, refuge, retreat, roofed-in, run, safety zone,
sanctuary, screen, screened, scummed, secluded, secluse, secret,
secret place, sequestered, sheathed, shelled, shelter, shield,
shielded, shifty, shroud, shrouded, skulking, sleeping, slinking,
slinky, sly, sneaking, sneaky, speculum, stash, stealthily,
stealthy, storm cave, storm cellar, sub rosa, submerged,
surreptitious, surreptitiously, swathed, tented, thicket, thickset,
trench, tunnel, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest,
under the surface, under wraps, under-the-counter, under-the-table,
undercover, undercovert, underground, underhand, underhanded,
underlying, unknown, unmanifested, unobtrusive, veil, veiled,
vestment, virtual, walled, walled-in, wrapped, wrapped in clouds
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
COVERT, BARON. A wife; so called, from her being under the cover or
protection of her husband, baron or lord.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
Covert, MI
Zip code(s): 49043
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
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