adjective. Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown: synonym: secret.

adjective. Covered or covered over; sheltered.

adjective. Being married and therefore protected by one's husband.

noun. A covering or cover.

noun. undefined

noun. A covered place or shelter; hiding place.

noun. Thick underbrush or woodland affording cover for game.

noun. One of the small feathers covering the bases of the longer feathers of a bird's wings or tail.

To cover.

Covered; hidden; private; secret; concealed; disguised.

Sheltered; not open or exposed: as, a covert place.

In law, under cover, authority, or protection: said of a married woman. See feme covert, under feme.

noun. A protection; a shelter; a defense; something that covers and shelters.

noun. Something that conceals or hides; a screen; a disguise; a pretext; an excuse.

noun. A thicket; a shady place or a hiding-place; a cover for game.

noun. Same as coverture, 3.

noun. In fowling, a company; a flock.

noun. plural In ornithology, feathers covering the bases, or more, of the large feathers of the wing or tail; the tectrices.

noun. A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.

noun. One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.

adjective. Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.

adjective. Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected.

adjective. Under cover, authority or protection.

adjective. See Covered way, under Covered.

adjective. Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.

adjective. Secret, surreptitious, concealed.

noun. Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.

noun. A feather that covers others

noun. a flock of coots

noun. a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something

adjective. (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband

adjective. secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed

overt  

covert play  disguise  ear coverts  hide  in covert  

backstair  backstairs  behind the scenes  black  clandestine  

cover  

flock  

overt  

clandestine  deliberate  diplomatic  direct  furtive  

abri  abstruse  air-raid shelter  arch  armored  

bird  

coverted  covertical  covertness  coverts