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▪ I. covercle, n.|ˈkʌvək(ə)l|
Forms: 5 cou-, covercle, -cule, -kell, -akylle, -kyl, cowerkylle, 8 coverkil, 4– covercle.
[a. OF. covercle (mod. F. couvercle), ad. L. cooperculum a cover, f. cooperīre to cover.]
†1. A cover (of a vessel), a lid. Obs.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame ii. 284 A little roundell..Paraventure as broad as a covercle. 1434E. E. Wills (1882) 102 A litill couerkell for his coppe ygilt. 1488Will of Fourmer (Somerset Ho.), A salt wtoute a couercle. [1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Covercle or Coverkil (old Word) a Cover, or Lid.]
2. Nat. Hist. Any natural structure, acting as a lid; an operculum. rare.
a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts 11 (L.) The covercle of a shell-fish. 1852Th. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. II. xxiv. 453 Opening the covercle of the lecythis. 1876Goldsmith's Nat. Hist. II. 535 note, The hornets line their cells with silk, and stop them with a covercle of the same material.
▪ II. † ˈcovercle, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To close down or hide as under a covercle.
a1631Donne in Select. (1840) 233 We cover it [sin] with some pretences, some excuses, some hopes of covercling it. |