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Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail.
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v.
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
n.
The Australian pied crow shrike (Strepera graculina). It is glossy bluish black, with the under tail coverts and the tips and bases of the tail feathers white.
n.
The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte.
a.
Situated above the ear coverts, or auriculars; -- said of certain feathers of birds.
v. i.
To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
n.
A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
a.
Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.
n. pl.
The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of Bird.
v. t.
Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband.
adv.
Covertly; privately; secretly.
a.
Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts.
v. t.
Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.
v. t.
To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
n.
Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.
n.
To drive to shelter; to track to covert.
v. i.
To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively.
v. t.
To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant.
v. t.
To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
adv.
By stabbing; with intent to injure covertly.
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