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Webster 1913 Edition

Cove

Cove

(kōv)
,
Noun.
[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

,
Verb.
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

,
Verb.
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

,
Noun.
[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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cove

COVE

,
Noun.
A small inlet, creek or bay; a recess in the sea shore, where vessels and boats may sometimes be sheltered from the winds and waves.

COVE

,
Verb.
T.
TO arch over; as a coved ceiling.

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