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Cove
(kv), n.[AS. cofa room; akin to G. koben pigsty, orig., hut, Icel. kofi hut, and perh. to E. cobalt.]
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.
Holland.
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
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.
The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs.
H. Swinburne.
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.[CF. F. couver, It. covare. See Covey.] 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.
Holland.

Cove
n.[A gypsy word, covo that man, covi that woman.] A boy or man of any age or station. [Slang]
There's a gentry cove here.
Wit's Recreations (1654).
Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drink
Be not filched from us.
Mrs. Browning.



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