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Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a reserved or secretive person, from Old French covert ‘guarded’, ‘crafty’.Americanized spelling of an unidentified Dutch or German name, perhaps Kofoed.
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v. i.
To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively.
n. pl.
The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of Bird.
v. t.
To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
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.
adv.
By stabbing; with intent to injure covertly.
a.
Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.
n.
Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.
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.
To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
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.
n.
To drive to shelter; to track to covert.
v. i.
To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
v. t.
Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.
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.
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.
adv.
Covertly; privately; secretly.
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.
a.
Situated above the ear coverts, or auriculars; -- said of certain feathers of birds.
v.
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.