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Show Go to thy fellows Shakefpeare's Merchant of Venice 2. To conceal under fomething laid over He makes a covenant never toldefi}:Oy The earth again by flood; nor let the fe Mi/ton's_Pamdzfi Loft Surpafs his bgounds}. The Englith make the ocean their abode Nor he their outward only with the fkin Of beafts, but inward nakednefs And make a cov'nant with th' inconftant fky Waller Some men live as if they had made a covenan terms certai compact compaét A covenant is a mutua as we' no 3. To hide by fuperficial appearances 4. To overwhelm ; to bury Railler of conditions, on man's part, required by God containin term th o agreemeut Charity fhall cover the multitude of fins 1 Petery ive 8 Thou may'ft repent And one bad a¢t with many deeds well don May'ft cover Miltan 1. To bargain; to ftipulate 6. To fhelter ; to proteét His lord ufed commonly fo to cowenant with him king of England that neither of them fhould trea of peace or truce with the Frexch king Hayward on Edward V1 com to kno Does with fubftantial bleflednefs abound And the foft wings of peace cover him round Cowley 7. To incubate; to brood on Natura birds ‘hav cold wet o dry . tenant fhould direét 2 calm or windy as th L' Eftrange To ‘agree 'with ' another on certai terms : with for before either the pric or the thing purchafed They covenanted with him for thirty pieces o filver Pointing to a heap of fand CoveENaNTEE. 2 /i [from cowenant. bargainer Both of them were refpe@iv miflion into th fevera nantees become thereb privileges CoVvENA'NTER ftipulator an [fro One who takes a covenant introduced in the civil wars adj. [from covin. lent; collufive Unfatisfied with margins clofely writ Foams o'er the covers, and not finifh'd yet Dryden's Fuvenal With your hand;. or any other zower, you fo wor the veflel fo as wholly to exclude: the air Fraudu 1. T overfprea thing elfe any thing with fome "The paftures are cloathed with flocks, the valley 2lfo are covered over with corn Sea cover'd'fea Sea without thore Plalm 1xv. 13 The flam'ng mount appear' In Dothan éower'd with a camp of fire, Milton -Mijlton unde whic The truth and reafon of things may be artificially and effe@ually infinvatzd, under the cove either of a real falk or of a fuppofed one Bacon's Office of Alicnation [cowvrir, French. ~appearance a veil; fomething is hidden in chief, for hundredsor thoufands of years w. a concealment ; a {creen fuperficia T with fome means devifed for the reftraint o thefe inordinate and covencus leafes of lands, holde 7% CO'VER Ray on the Creation 2. trickifh Dryden Oreftes' bulky rage covenant. "in th according to the parts ; the fkin is fhaped-accordin to the, parts Bacop The fountains could be firengthened no othe way than by making a ftrong cower or arch ove them Burnet's Theory the cove The covenanters fhall have no more affuranc of mutual aflitance ecach from other, -after th taking of the covenant, than they had before Oxford Reafons againft the Covenant Co'venous to be covere 3 L Efr As the fpleen has great incontveniencies, fo th pretence of it is‘a-Handfome' cover for imperfections Collier: on the Spleen Shelter; defence from weather In the mea time b being compelle to lodg in the field, which grew now to be very cold whilft his army was under cover, they might b forced to retire Cover-suame Clarendon 7z /o [cover and fhame. Some "appearance -ufed 1o conceal in famy, Dryden's Spanifp Friar of lewdnefs Co'VERING. 7 f. [from cover.] Drefs vefture ; any thing fpread over another The women took and fpread a cowering over th 2 Sam. xvils 19 well's mouth Bring {ome covering for this naked foul Who Shak. King Lear I'll intreat to lead me Through her flefh methinks is fee The brighter foul that dwells within Our eyes the fubtle covering pals Cowlzy And fee the lily through its glafs Then from the floor he rais'd a royal bed With cov'rings of Sidonian purple fpread Dryden's Fables Sometimes Providence cafts things fo, that trut and intercit lic the fame way ; and when it is'wrap up in this covering, men can be content to follo Soutb it outermoi Th French. 7. [. [couvreli& Co'verLET tha of the bedclothes under which all the reft are concealed Lay her in lilies and in violets And filken curtains over her difplay And odour'd fhects, and arras-coverlets Sperfera This dore, the hoft produc'd the genial bed Which with no coftly coverfet they fpread Dryden's Fables Co'veErT . /. [from cover 5 convert, Fr. I. A fhelter; a defence Let mine outcafts dwell with thee, Moab; b thou a cowert to them from the face of the {poiier Ifaiah, xvi. 4 There fhall be a tabernacle for a fhadow in th day-time from the heat, and for a place of refuge and for a covert from ftorm and rain Ifaiah, iv. 6 They are by fudden alarm, or watch-word, t be called out to their military motions, under fk or covert, according to the feafon, as was th Roman wont Milton on Education 1t was the hour of night, when thus the So Cummun'd in filent walk, then laid him dow Under the hofpitable covert nig Of trees thick interwoven Milton Now have a care your carnations catch hot to much wet, therefore retire them to cowert Ewelyn's Kalendar 2. A thicket, or hiding place Tow'rd hi I made but he was *ware of me And ftole into the covert of the wood Shakefpeare's Romeo and Falict Ithall be your faichful guide The fecundine is butia general cover; not: thape entitled to the refpe@iv Ayliffe's Parergon # / tha Co'ver. n./. [from the verb. 1. Any thing that 1s laid over another rites of their ad covenants to .him prefence of that king Garths Owid to a ‘covenant That king had conferred the honour of grande upon him, which was of no other advintage o fignificatio Forgot to cowenant for youth and prime part 8. To copulate with a female 9. To wear the hat, or garment of th head, as a mark of fuperiority or independence DNatthean. For ev'ry grain, to live a year demand But, ah ! unmindful of th' effeét of time that whilft the hen is cowering her eggs, the mal generally takes his ftand upon a neighbourin bough within her hearing, and by that mean amufes and diverts her with his fongs during th whole' time of her'fitting Addifin's Spectator minds ; by thefe they covenant and confederate South Jupiter covenanted with him, that:it fhould b " hot o hiftorians obferve, that only the mal voices; that their fongs begin a littl before breeding time, and end a little after one another' Dees he put on holy garments for a cover-fham I was, for wantofa houfe and bed, forced to li Sawift on the ground, wrapt up in-my cowerlet His calm and blamelefs lif he migh freely depart at his'pleafure Spenfer's State of Ireland It had, been cpwenanted between him and :th By words me Watts 5. To conceal from notice or punifhment @. 7 {from the noun. .which if at any time the tenant difliked it to b reafon has firft prove mere nonfenfe I fhall but lend my diamond till your return let there be covenants drawn between us Shakefpeare's Cymbeline o Co'vENANT nonfenf and wit ferve only to cove with fhame, whe Hammond's Pragtical Catechifm writin Milt In life's cool vale let my low fcene be laid Cower me, gods, with Tempe's thickeft fhade Cozvley Or lead me to fome folitary place And cower my retreat from human race Dryden's Virgil confider it, betwixt God and man ; confifting o mercies, on God's part, made over to man; an 3. mor Hide me, th I may never fee them more with hell : let divines, fathers, friends, fay wha they will, they ftop their ears againft them L' Eftrange o muc Opprobrious, with his robe of righteoufnef Arraying, cover'd from his father's fight. Milton Cower me, ye pines Ye cedars with innumerable bough Whofe ready fails with ev'ry wind can fly agreemen bid them cowver the table fexve in the meat, and we will come in to dinner conventum, Latin 1. A contract; a ftipulation 2, A CO 0o IR CO''VENANT. ./ [convenant, French Through this.gloomy covers wide. Milton Thence to the cowerts, and the confcious groves The fcenes of Lis pa&t triamphs and his loves Denkam Deep into fome thick cowert would I rug Impenetrable to the ftars or fun Drydef's State of Innobence The deer is lodg'd; 1°ve track'd her to her ¢owert. Be fure ye mind the word; and when I give i Ruih in at once, and [eize upon your prey Addifor's Cata Co'vERT. adj. [couvert, French. 1. Sheltered; not open; not expofed Yo are of eithe fid th green to plan cowert alley, upon carpenter's work, about twelv foot in height, by which you' may go in thade int the garden The fo R zcom is a beaft alfo-very prejudicial to th hufbandman, efpecially' in places ‘that are nea foref-woods and covert placess Mortinm: Huf¥andry Fogether iet us beat this ample fisld Try what the open, what the tovert yicld P 2. Secret; hidden ; private; inf s Fl:l)' 1048 And let us prefently go fit in council How cowert matters may be beft difclos™d And open perils fureft, anfwered Shakefpeare's Filius Catfar B |