Results for cover

Definitions of cover:

part of speech: verb transitive

To hide: to clothe: to shelter: to brood or sit on: to be sufficient for, as to cover expense.

part of speech: verb

To overspread the surface or top of anything by another thing; to veil or conceal from view by some intervening object; to clothe; to shelter; to protect; to equal or be equivalent to.

part of speech: noun

That which covers or protects: ( hunting) the retreat of a fox or hare.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To lay a table for a meal: to prepare a banquet. Shak. " To cover courtly for a king."- Greene.

part of speech: verb transitive

To put something over; to conceal; to overspread, as the top of anything; to sit upon or incubate, as a hen her eggs; to overrun; extand thickly over an area; to include or be sufflcient for; to pass over, as a space; shelter; clothe.

part of speech: noun

Anything laid or spread over something else; anything that veils or conceals; disguise; shelter; protection.

part of speech: verb intransitive

Put on a hat or headdress.

part of speech: noun

That which is laid on something else; a protection; a shelter; a thicket concealing game; the table equipment at a meal, especially for one person.

Usage examples for cover:

• But I'm too old to lose sleep unless there's a good reason for it, so cover up the fire and we'll sleep the old year out instead o' watchin' it out. "The Land of Long Ago", Eliza Calvert Hall

• Maybe you killed the old guy yourself and are trying to cover up. "Master of the Moondog", Stanley Mullen

• One ought never to try to cover up anything one has done wrong. "Notwithstanding", Mary Cholmondeley

• I tell you this will cover it, and everything will be all right. "Half Portions", Edna Ferber