Covert : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Covert	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Covert
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
covert adj secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; "covert actions by the CIA"; "covert funding for the rebels" Antonym(s): open, overt (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband; "a woman covert" n a flock of coots a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something; "a screen of trees afforded privacy"; "under cover of darkness"; "the brush provided a covert for game"; "the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background" Synonym(s): screen, cover, covert, concealment
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Covert \Cov"ert\ (k?v"?rt), a. [OF. covert, F. couvert, p. p. of couvrir. See {Cover}, v. t.] 1. Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised. How covert matters may be best disclosed. --Shak. Whether of open war or covert guile. --Milton 2. Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook. -- Wordsworth. Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley. --Bacon. 3. (Law) 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. {Covert way}, (Fort.) See {Covered way}, under {Covered}. Syn: Hidden; secret; private; covered; disguised; insidious; concealed. See {Hidden}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Covert \Cov"ert\, n. [OF. See {Covert}, a.] 1. A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense. A tabernacle . . . for a covert from storm. --Is. iv. 6. The highwayman has darted from his covered by the wayside. --Prescott. 2. [Cf. F. couverte.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of {Bird}.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Covert, MI Zip code(s): 49043