Word Meanings - COVERTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Secretly; in private; insidiously.

Related words: (words related to COVERTLY)

• PRIVATEERING
  Cruising in a privateer.
• PRIVATEERSMAN
  An officer or seaman of a privateer.
• PRIVATE
  to an individual, private, properly p. p. of privare to bereave, deprive, originally, to separate, fr. privus single, private, perhaps originally, put forward and akin to prae 1. Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or
• PRIVATELY
  1. In a private manner; not openly; without the presence of others. 2. In a manner affecting an individual; personally not officially; as, he is not privately benefited.
• PRIVATEER
  1. An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque. 2. The commander of a privateer. Kidd soon threw off the character of a privateer and became a pirate.
• SECRETLY
  In a secret manner.
• PRIVATENESS
  1. Seclusion from company or society; retirement; privacy; secrecy. Bacon. 2. The state of one not invested with public office.