noun. A secret agreement; secret fraud; collusion.

noun. Specifically In law, a collusive agreement between two or more to prejudice a third person; deceitful contrivance.

noun. Same as covent.

noun. A collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third.

noun. Deceit; fraud; artifice.

noun. fraud, deception

"These were the real Dark Ages, when intimations were frequently made from the Glendevon and other pulpits that the minister and session would be glad to receive information against suspected witches, and when the common pricker who pricked poor witches "with lang preins of thrie inches" to discover the marks of Satan, was specially busy in the vale of Devon, where in a record year no less than sixteen of the local "covin" were burned."

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