Thesaurus: cove

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1. n. A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
2. n. A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
3. n. A concave molding.
4. n. A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.
5. v. t. To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
6. v. t. To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
7. n. A boy or man of any age or station.
8. n. a small inlet
9. n. small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain
10. 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. 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. 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. 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.
11. To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in theform of a cove.The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded intodomes and coved roofs. H. Swinburne.Coved ceiling, a ceiling, the part of which next the wail isconstructed in a cove.-- Coved vault, a vault composed of four coves meeting in a centralpoint, and therefore the reverse of a groined vault.
12. n:100 n. a small inlet n. small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain