cov

n. (Higher Alg.) A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. cofa room; akin to G. koben pigsty, orig., hut, Icel. kofi hut, and perh. to E. cobalt. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vessels which were in readiness for him within secret coves and nooks. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A gypsy word, covo that man, covi that woman. ] A boy or man of any age or station. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There's a gentry cove here. Wit's Recreations (1654). [ 1913 Webster ]

Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drink
Be not filched from us. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Coved p. pr. & vb. n. Coving. ] (Arch.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs. H. Swinburne. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ CF. F. couver, It. covare. See Covey. ] To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Not being able to cove or sit upon them [ eggs ], she [ the female tortoise ] bestoweth them in the gravel. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ After Covelli, the discoverer. ] (Min.) A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. covenable, F. convenable. See Covenant. ] Fit; proper; suitable. [ Obs. ] “A covenable day.” Wyclif (Mark vi. 21). [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Fitly; suitably. [ Obs. ] “Well and covenably.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]