Crossword-Solution: COVER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cover | v. t. | To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth. |
| Cover | v. t. | To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. |
| Cover | v. t. | To invest (one's self with something); to bring upon (one's self); as, he covered himself with glory. |
| Cover | v. t. | To hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the enemy were covered from our sight by the woods. |
| Cover | v. t. | To brood or sit on; to incubate. |
| Cover | v. t. | To shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat. |
| Cover | v. t. | To remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit. |
| Cover | v. t. | To extend over; to be sufficient for; to comprehend, include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to counterbalance; as, a mortgage which fully covers a sum loaned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses. |
| Cover | v. t. | To put the usual covering or headdress on. |
| Cover | v. t. | To copulate with (a female); to serve; as, a horse covers a mare; -- said of the male. |
| Cover | n. | Anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book. |
| Cover | n. | Anything which veils or conceals; a screen; disguise; a cloak. |
| Cover | n. | Shelter; protection; as, the troops fought under cover of the batteries; the woods afforded a good cover. |
| Cover | n. | The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover. |
| Cover | n. | The lap of a slide valve. |
| Cover | n. | A tablecloth, and the other table furniture; esp., the table furniture for the use of one person at a meal; as, covers were laid for fifty guests. |
| Cover | v. i. | To spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with COVER (5)
Space may produce new Worlds; whereof so rife There went a fame in Heav’n that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation, whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven: Thither, if but to prie, shall be perhaps Our first eruption, thither or elsewhere: For this Infernal Pit shall never hold Caelestial Spirits in Bondage, nor th’ Abysse Long under darkness cover.
One of the men then stepped up beside it, took from his pocket a lump of chalk, and wrote upon the cover the name and a few other words in a large scrawling hand.
Unbending the rigid folds of the parchment cover, I found it to be a commission, under the hand and seal of Governor Shirley, in favour of one Jonathan Pue, as Surveyor of His Majesty’s Customs for the Port of Salem, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and periodically inundate its temperate zones.
This new version casts a wider net than the old Jargon File; its aim is to cover not just AI or PDP-10 hacker culture but all the technical computing cultures wherein the true hacker-nature is manifested.
Quotes with COVER (3)
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around…
When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches t…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 87 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).