Word Meanings - REVERDURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.

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• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• AGAIN
  again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again,
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• COVERTNESS
  Secrecy; privacy.
• COVERER
  One who, or that which, covers.
• COVERCHIEF
  A covering for the head. Chaucer.
• COVERTLY
  Secretly; in private; insidiously.
• COVER
  operire to cover; probably fr. ob towards, over + the root appearing 1. To overspread the surface of with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth. 2. To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And
• COVERING
  Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• AGAIN; AGAINS
  Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.
• COVERAGE
  The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance.
• COVER-SHAME
  Something used to conceal infamy. Dryden.
• COVERED
  Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden. Covered way , a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around
• COVERSED SINE
  The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
• COVERTURE
  The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte. (more info) 1. Covering; shelter; defence; hiding.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• REVERDURE
  To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• DISCOVERABLE
  Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
• DISCOVERY
  1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next
• IRRECOVERABLE
  Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon. Syn. -- Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless.
• DISCOVERER
  1. One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A scout; an explorer. Shak.
• RECOVERANCE
  Recovery.
• INDISCOVERY
  Want of discovery.