ppl. a. Also 5–7 couered, 5 curyd, kevvryd. [f. COVER sb. and v. + -ED.]
1. Having a cover, covering or lid. † b. Of a ship: Decked. † c. Of base coin: Overlaid or plated (with precious metal).
1463. Bury Wills (Camden), 41. My best gay cuppe of erthe kevvryd. Ibid., 42. My browne cuppe of erthe curyd.
1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., III. iv. 26. I doe thinke him as concaue as a couered goblet.
a. 1656. Ussher, Ann., VI. (1658), 421. King Eumenes, coming from Elæa with 20 covered ships.
1752. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Medals, Covered or Plaited Medals are those which have only a thin silver leaf over the copper.
† 2. Concealed, hidden; secret; of concealed or ambiguous meaning. Obs.
1483. Caxton, G. de la Tour, 57 b. Yf she hadde holde her self more secrete and couered.
1552. Latimer, Serm. 23rd Sund. after Trin., Wks. II. 182. Yet he doth it with dark and covered words.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 173. Either by his covered, or discovered will.
3. Thickly clothed with some vegetative growth. Now only in comb., as brake-, moss-, weed-covered.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., VII. (1682), 320. Some were in the covered Fields hunting their prey.
1678. A. Lovell, Fontaine’s Duties Cav., 119. An Army passing through a close and covered Country, suffers many inconveniencies.
4. Roofed or closed in overhead.
1667. Milton, P. L., I. 763. The spacious Hall … like a cover’d field.
1709. Addison, Tatler, No. 123, ¶ 2. These were most of them covered Walks.
1756. C. Lucas, Ess. Waters, III. 262. There is not a covered way to walk in after drinking.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 195. They walked about in the covered court.
5. Wearing one’s hat; keeping one’s hat on.
c. 1669. S. Colvil, in Maidment, Sc. Pasquils (1868), 394. And speak to Statesmen with your hat on; And covered, rounds in ladies’ ears.
1727. Swift, Wonder of Wond. He stands always covered, even in the presence of the king.
6. Sheltered, protected, screened; spec. in Fortif. † covered flank, covered-way (formerly covert-way; see COVERT a. 1 b): see quots.
1685. Travestin, Siege Newheusel, 28. The besieged made a Sally by a covered way.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Flank, Low, covered, or retired Flank is the platform of the casemate which lies hid in the bastion.
1828. J. M. Spearman, Brit. Gunner (ed. 2), 207. The Covered-way is intended to form a communication round the place, and to prevent the enemy from approaching the counterscarpe of the ditch.
1859. F. A. Griffiths, Artil. Man. (ed. 9), 261. The Covered way is a space of about 30 feet broad, extending round the counterscarp of the ditch, being covered by a parapet … with a banquette.
7. Comb. Covered-binding (Mining) = plank-timbering (see quot.); covered-eyed a., having eyes protected by a covering; opposed to naked-eyed.
1857. Agassiz, Nat. Hist. U. S., I. 71. The Covered-eyed Medusæ.
1881. Raymond, Mining Gloss., Covered-binding, = Plank-timbering, the lining of a shaft with rectangular plank frames.
