covert
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Is covert a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.Examples: "covert operations"; "how covert matters may be best disclosed"; "whether of open war or covert guile"Antonyms: overtfiguratively
2. (now rare) Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.Examples: "Within that wood there was a covert glade, Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne […]"; "to plant a covert alley"archaic
3. (law, historical) Under coverture.Examples: "feme covert"; "[…] a separate use for a woman cannot be created unless she is covert, or unless in immediate contemplation of her marriage."; "[…] in the second case, as long as the woman is covert she cannot anticipate the income, and a mere alienation of her interest is not an attempt to anticipate."Synonyms: covert baronhistorical
noun (English)
1. (ornithology) A feather that covers the bases of flight feathers.Examples: "When he felt the trappings being taken off him, so that he was in hunting order, Cully did make some movements as if to rouse. He raised his crest, his shoulder coverts and the soft feathers of his thighs."
Definition source: Wiktionary