coven.¹

/kəʊv/

Forms: Old English–Middle English cofa, coua, Middle English– cove, (ScottishMiddle English cowe, Middle English coaue, 1500s coif).

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Common Germanic; compare Middle High German kobe (modern German koben), Middle Low German cove, coven, modern koven; Old Norse kofi cell, hut, shed, Swedish kofva, dialect kove, kuvi, hut, Norwegian kove < Old Germanic *kuƀon. Some of the special applications in English seem to be local developments, and are of late appearance in literature.

†1.

a. In Old English: A small chamber, inner chamber, bed-chamber, cell, etc.; common with qualifying word prefixed, as bán-cofa bone-chamber, body, gást-cofa spirit's chamber, breast.

ΚΠ

a800 Corpus Gloss. 1583 Pistrimum[-num], cofa.

956 Charter Eadwig in Cod. Dipl. V. 348 Of mædæna coua on ðone hricweg tô Ealhæres byrgelse.

OE Genesis 1464 Wæs culufre eft of cofan sended.

c1000 Ags. Ps. civ. 26 [cv. 30] On cyninga cofum [L. in cubilibus regum].

c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 189/10 Penates, cofgodas.

c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 423/18 In conclaui, on cofan.

†b. cove and key: closet or chamber and key; an ancient legal phrase used by Bracton in reference to the functions and rights of the mistress of a house, from the age of fourteen or fifteen. Obsolete.In the 1569 ed. of Bracton, erroneously printed cone and key; repeated in Spelman and the Law dictionaries, as well as in the Rolls ed. of Bracton. The manuscripts have clearly coue; MS. Rawlinson C. 158 has cleue and key (see cleve n. chamber, bed-room, closet = 1a); MS. Rawl. C. 159 has cofre, apparently altered from cofe. See W. H. Stevenson in Academy, 17 May 1890, 338. (It is not perfectly clear whether cove, cleve closet here meant ‘bed-chamber’ or ‘store-chamber’.)

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > [noun] > management or administration > domestic management

housewifeship?c1225

cove and keyc1250

husbandryc1300

economica1393

ménagea1393

householda1398

householdinga1425

housewifery1440

economyc1454

economics1535

house rule1579

householdry1581

managery1586

housekeeping1652

household management1741

notability1756

homebuilding1757

domestic economy1778

Wirtschaft1841

homekeeping1846

housecraft1848

homemaking1863

home economics1872

home science1886

household science1896

domestic science1897

c1250 Bracton ii. xxxvii. §2 Femina..cum possit et sciat domui suæ disponere et ea facere quæ pertinent ad dispositionem et ordinationem domus, ut sciat quæ pertineant ad coue et keye, quod quidem esse non poterit ante quartum decimum annum vel decimum quintum.

c1250 Bracton ii. xxxvii. §3 Cum esset quatuordecim vel quindecim annorum..in tali ætate potest disponere domui suæ et habere coue et keye.

1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 33 A Woman is supposed to be of perfect age in Socage in all cases so soon as she is able to know how to dispose of her house..and is able to understand what appertains to Cone and Key, which cannot be before she be fourteen or fifteen years old.

1890 W. H. Stevenson in Academy 17 May 338 ‘Cove and key’ meant ‘closet and key’, referring, no doubt, to the housewife's storechamber.

†c. A cell in a pigeon-cote. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > keeping or breeding pigeons > pigeon-hole

culver-hole1565

pigeonhole1577

locker1600

locker holea1640

cove1725

columbarium1881

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pigeon House As to the Nests or Coves of the Pigeon-house, some build them in the Wall with flat Bricks.

2. A hollow or recess in a rock, a cave, cavern, den. Scottish and northern.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > cave

covec950

denOE

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rochea1300

spelunk13..

cavernc1374

cabin1377

speke1377

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minea1398

thurse-house?c1450

crypt?a1475

vault1535

chamber1575

antre1585

underground1594

Peak1600

lustre?1615

open?1644

cunicle1657

subterranean1714

subterrane1759

loch1767

purgatory1797

vug1818

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxi. 13 Hus min hus gebedes geceiged gie uutedlice gie worhton ða ilca cofa ðeafana [Ags. Gosp. to þeofa cote; L. speluncam latronum].

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John. xi. 38 Se Hælend..cuom to ðæm byrgenne, uæs uutudlice cofà [L. spelunca] & stan ofer-gessetted uæs him.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12341 To þe leones coue he yod.

c1480 (a1400) St. Mary Magdalen 814 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 279 In þat roche hey & stay, a cawe he had quhare he lay.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Preaching of Swallow l. 1705 in Poems (1981) 67 All wyld beistis..Drawis..vnto thair dennis deip, Coucheand for cauld in coifis thame to keip.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. iv. 21 Vndir the hyngand rolkis was alswa Ane coif, and tharin fresch watir springand.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 47 A certane coue [L. antrum], quhairin water continualie drapping, in a schorte space turnes in a verie quhyte stane.

1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 153 A noted cavern near Colean-house, called the Cove of Colean.

1849 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 358 The dark caverns, or ‘coves’..tenanted by these animals.

a. A recess with precipitous sides in the steep flank of a mountain. (Common in the English Lake district, where small lateral valleys often end in ‘coves’.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > on or among hills

saddleOE

swirec1050

pocket1745

lap1747

rock basin1754

niche1756

sliddera1793

corrie1795

cove1805

slot1808

bay1853

punchbowl1855

1805 W. Wordsworth Fidelity iii It was a cove, a huge recess That keeps till June, December's snow.

1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 337 The dark, solitary hollows of Nethermost, Ruthwaite, and Cock coves.

1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 342 A wild, secluded cove, at the head of the glen.

b. In some parts of U.S.: a gap, pass.

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1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 511 Notch, a narrow passage, through the mountains..in the Catskill mountains represented by Cove.

4. A sheltered recess in a coast; a small bay, creek, or inlet where boats may shelter.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > bay or gulf > small

hopec1425

docka1552

cove1590

hole1639

baylet1826

keyhole1851

porth1860

covelet1876

gunk-hole1908

1590 R. Ferris Most Dangerous Aduenture sig. B Within fiue myles of Saint Iues, we were constrained to seeke for a Coue, which we found called Saint Dryuey, in Cornwale.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia i. 20 Gallant Coues, to containe in many of them 100 sayle.

1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 62 Cove, a little harbour for boats. West Countrey.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 61 We run our Vessel into a little Cove.

1776 C. Lee in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 244 The creek, or cove, which separates it from the continent, is near a mile wide.

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 37 There are several coves and indentures in the cliffs between the Start Point and the mouth of the Dart river.

1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 30 As waves that from the outer deep Roll into a quiet cove.

5. transferred. A sheltered place or recess among hills, woods, etc.

ΚΠ

1768 C. Beatty Jrnl. 22 Preached in the settlement of the great Cove.

1786 W. Gilpin Observ. Mountains & Lakes Cumberland I. 133 Ambleside is..delightfully seated. A cove of lofty mountains half incircles it on the north.

1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 203 We next passed over a level green lawn, a cove of the savanna.

1793 W. Wordsworth Evening Walk 2 'Tis mine to rove Through bare grey dell, high wood, and pastoral cove.

1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Cove, a strip of prairie extending into the woodland.

1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks II. xii. 35 Small farm-houses..may not unfrequently be met with in the little coves of the valleys.

a. Architecture. A concave arch or vault; an arched moulding or concavity running along the projecting member of a structure; esp. the concave arch of a ceiling; now usually the quadrantal curve at its junction with the cornice.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > other types of arch

bowOE

craba1387

cove1511

triumphal arch (arc)a1566

straight arch1663

pointed arch1688

rough arch1693

jack-arch1700

oxi1700

raking arch1711

flat arch1715

scheme-arch1725

counter-arch1726

ox-eye arch1736

surbased dome1763

ogee1800

rising arch1809

sub-arch1811

deaf arch1815

four-centred arch1815

mixed arch1815

Tudor arch1815

camber1823

lancet arch1823

invert1827

platband1828

pier arch1835

ogive1841

scoinson arch1842

segment1845

skew arch1845

drop-arch1848

equilateral arch1848

lancet1848

rear arch1848

straining-arch1848

tierceron1851

shouldered arch1853

archlet1862

segment-arch1887

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > concave moulding

casementc1425

cove1511

scotia1563

trochilus1563

casemate1611

cavetto1700

throat1722

hollow1726

1511 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Payd for makyng off a cove ouer de ovyn.

1645 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 219 The fillings up, or cove, betwixt the walls, were of urns and earthen pots, for the better sounding.

1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 76 O'er-arching, mouldy, gloom-inspiring coves, Supporting roofs, fantastic.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §278 note This course..forms the cove on the outside.

1797 Trans. Soc. Arts 15 252 Paintings..on curved surfaces, such as the coves of ceilings.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 139 The coves and cornices of rooms are generally executed in plaster.

1884 Law Times 18 Oct. 401/2 The ceiling..is..joined to the walls with a cove having a radius of six feet.

b. Nautical. (See quot. 1850.)

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1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 112 Cove, the arched moulding sunk in at the foot or lower part of the taffrail.

c. Archaeology. A setting of a small number of stones close together within a henge monument.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > stone > circle > small number of stones within

cove1743

1743 W. Stukeley Abury viii. 37 Thus we cast up the number [of stones]. The outer circle of Abury town, 100... The cove, 003... Longstone cove jambs, 002.

1743 W. Stukeley Abury x. 47 Another stonework towards the other end; which seems to have been a semicircular cove, or demi-ellipsis consisting of five great stones.

1819 R. C. Hoare Anc. Hist. N. Wilts 68 A cove, consisting of three large stones placed with an obtuse angle towards each other.

1936 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 2 25 At Avebury and at Arbor Low there are remains of more complex structures, sometimes known as coves.

1963 Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Surv.) (ed. 4) 40 Both at Stanton Drew and at Avebury there is a curious arrangement of stones known as a ‘cove’ which recalls, though on a larger scale, the burial place in a chambered barrow.

Compounds

cove-bracketing n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 958 Cove Bracketing, the wooden skeleton for the lathing of any cove..usually applied to that of the quadrantal cove, which is placed between the flat ceiling and the wall.

cove-plane n. a plane for cutting coved surfaces.

ΚΠ

1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. Wood-working Factories 146 In some shops it will be worked out by hand with cove planes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

coven.²

/kəʊv/

Forms: 1500s–1600s cofe, 1500s coff, 1600s– cove.

Etymology: The early variant cofe has suggested that this is identical with Scots cofe n., ‘chapman, pedlar’, the sense having undergone the same transition as in chap n.³, which is now nearly equivalent in meaning, save that cove belongs to a lower and more slangy stratum of speech. But the phonetic change of f to v , at so late a date, is not usual; and the origin of the word still remains obscure. Compare also co n.²

slang (originally Thieves' cant).

A fellow, ‘chap’, ‘customer’; sometimes = boss n.⁶ (see quot. 1891²). Frequent in the 20th century in Australian sources.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [noun]

churla800

werec900

rinkeOE

wapmanc950

heOE

wyeOE

gomeOE

ledeOE

seggeOE

shalkOE

manOE

carmanlOE

mother bairnc1225

hemea1250

mother sona1250

hind1297

buck1303

mister mana1325

piecec1325

groomc1330

man of mouldc1330

hathela1350

sire1362

malea1382

fellowa1393

guestc1394

sergeant?a1400

tailarda1400

tulka1400

harlotc1405

mother's sona1470

frekea1475

her1488

masculinea1500

gentlemana1513

horse?a1513

mutton?a1513

merchant1549

child1551

dick1553

sorrya1555

knavea1556

dandiprat1556

cove1567

rat1571

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bird1575

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Roger1631

Johnny1648

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buff1708

son of a gun1708

buffer1749

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Mr1753

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gory1819

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chappie1822

Charley1825

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Joe1846

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jasper1896

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sport1897

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papa1903

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stud1909

scout1912

head1913

beezer1914

jeff1917

pisser1918

bimbo1919

bozo1920

gee1921

mush1936

rye mush1936

basher1942

okie1943

mugger1945

cat1946

ou1949

tess1952

oke1970

bra1974

muzhik1993

1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) Peddelars Frenche sig. Giii A gentry cofe, a noble or gentle man.

1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) Peddelars Frenche sig. Giiii^v What stowe you bene cofe..What holde your peace good fellowe.

1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. B3^v The word Coue, or Cofe or Cuffin, signifies a Man, a Fellow, &c...a good fellow, is a Bene Cofe.

a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 52 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) There's a Gentry Cove here, Is the top of the shire.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Cofe, c. as Cove.

1737 in Logan Pedlar's Pack (1869) 147 Now my Kinchin Cove is gone.

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) The master of a house or shop is called the Cove..; when joined to particular words, as a cross-cove, a flash-cove, a leary-cove, &c., it simply implies a man of those several descriptions.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. x. 151 That old cove at the book-stall.

1891 N. Gould Double Event 115 I am not in the habit of being called a cove.

1891 K. Lentzner Austral. Word-bk. Cove, master or overseer of an Australian station.

1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxxiii. 288 Recollec' that cove with a red beard.

1916 Anzac Bk. 65 Then a corporal called and wanted to know..when would the rubber boots be ready for the coves in the trenches?

1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee vii. 84 ‘He's one of those smart coves,’ said Sam.

1944 F. Clune Red Heart 67 ‘Must be a balmy cove,’ whispered one of the hangers-on as he tapped his forehead.

1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 190 The young coves round about combed their hair back with soap to keep it in position.

1969 Advertiser (Adelaide) 12 May 5/4 You Aussie coves are just a bunch of drongoes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	cove
释义	coven.¹ /kəʊv/ Forms: Old English–Middle English cofa, coua, Middle English– cove, (ScottishMiddle English cowe, Middle English coaue, 1500s coif). Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Common Germanic; compare Middle High German kobe (modern German koben), Middle Low German cove, coven, modern koven; Old Norse kofi cell, hut, shed, Swedish kofva, dialect kove, kuvi, hut, Norwegian kove < Old Germanic kuƀon. Some of the special applications in English seem to be local developments, and are of late appearance in literature. †1. a. In Old English: A small chamber, inner chamber, bed-chamber, cell, etc.; common with qualifying word prefixed, as bán-cofa* bone-chamber, body, gást-cofa spirit's chamber, breast. ΚΠ a800 Corpus Gloss. 1583 Pistrimum[-num], cofa. 956 Charter Eadwig in Cod. Dipl. V. 348 Of mædæna coua on ðone hricweg tô Ealhæres byrgelse. OE Genesis 1464 Wæs culufre eft of cofan sended. c1000 Ags. Ps. civ. 26 [cv. 30] On cyninga cofum [L. in cubilibus regum]. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 189/10 Penates, cofgodas. c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 423/18 In conclaui, on cofan. †b. cove and key: closet or chamber and key; an ancient legal phrase used by Bracton in reference to the functions and rights of the mistress of a house, from the age of fourteen or fifteen. Obsolete.In the 1569 ed. of Bracton, erroneously printed cone and key; repeated in Spelman and the Law dictionaries, as well as in the Rolls ed. of Bracton. The manuscripts have clearly coue; MS. Rawlinson C. 158 has cleue and key (see cleve n. chamber, bed-room, closet = 1a); MS. Rawl. C. 159 has cofre, apparently altered from cofe. See W. H. Stevenson in Academy, 17 May 1890, 338. (It is not perfectly clear whether cove, cleve closet here meant ‘bed-chamber’ or ‘store-chamber’.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > management or administration > domestic management housewifeship?c1225 cove and keyc1250 husbandryc1300 economica1393 ménagea1393 householda1398 householdinga1425 housewifery1440 economyc1454 economics1535 house rule1579 householdry1581 managery1586 housekeeping1652 household management1741 notability1756 homebuilding1757 domestic economy1778 Wirtschaft1841 homekeeping1846 housecraft1848 homemaking1863 home economics1872 home science1886 household science1896 domestic science1897 c1250 Bracton ii. xxxvii. §2 Femina..cum possit et sciat domui suæ disponere et ea facere quæ pertinent ad dispositionem et ordinationem domus, ut sciat quæ pertineant ad coue et keye, quod quidem esse non poterit ante quartum decimum annum vel decimum quintum. c1250 Bracton ii. xxxvii. §3 Cum esset quatuordecim vel quindecim annorum..in tali ætate potest disponere domui suæ et habere coue et keye. 1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 33 A Woman is supposed to be of perfect age in Socage in all cases so soon as she is able to know how to dispose of her house..and is able to understand what appertains to Cone and Key, which cannot be before she be fourteen or fifteen years old. 1890 W. H. Stevenson in Academy 17 May 338 ‘Cove and key’ meant ‘closet and key’, referring, no doubt, to the housewife's storechamber. †c. A cell in a pigeon-cote. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > keeping or breeding pigeons > pigeon-hole culver-hole1565 pigeonhole1577 locker1600 locker holea1640 cove1725 columbarium1881 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pigeon House As to the Nests or Coves of the Pigeon-house, some build them in the Wall with flat Bricks. 2. A hollow or recess in a rock, a cave, cavern, den. Scottish and northern. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > cave covec950 denOE cavec1220 rochea1300 spelunk13.. cavernc1374 cabin1377 speke1377 antruma1398 minea1398 thurse-house?c1450 crypt?a1475 vault1535 chamber1575 antre1585 underground1594 Peak1600 lustre?1615 open?1644 cunicle1657 subterranean1714 subterrane1759 loch1767 purgatory1797 vug1818 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxi. 13 Hus min hus gebedes geceiged gie uutedlice gie worhton ða ilca cofa ðeafana [Ags. Gosp. to þeofa cote; L. speluncam latronum]. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John. xi. 38 Se Hælend..cuom to ðæm byrgenne, uæs uutudlice cofà [L. spelunca] & stan ofer-gessetted uæs him. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12341 To þe leones coue he yod. c1480 (a1400) St. Mary Magdalen 814 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 279 In þat roche hey & stay, a cawe he had quhare he lay. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Preaching of Swallow l. 1705 in Poems (1981) 67 All wyld beistis..Drawis..vnto thair dennis deip, Coucheand for cauld in coifis thame to keip. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. iv. 21 Vndir the hyngand rolkis was alswa Ane coif, and tharin fresch watir springand. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 47 A certane coue [L. antrum], quhairin water continualie drapping, in a schorte space turnes in a verie quhyte stane. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 153 A noted cavern near Colean-house, called the Cove of Colean. 1849 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 358 The dark caverns, or ‘coves’..tenanted by these animals. 3. a. A recess with precipitous sides in the steep flank of a mountain. (Common in the English Lake district, where small lateral valleys often end in ‘coves’.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > on or among hills saddleOE swirec1050 pocket1745 lap1747 rock basin1754 niche1756 sliddera1793 corrie1795 cove1805 slot1808 bay1853 punchbowl1855 1805 W. Wordsworth Fidelity iii It was a cove, a huge recess That keeps till June, December's snow. 1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 337 The dark, solitary hollows of Nethermost, Ruthwaite, and Cock coves. 1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 342 A wild, secluded cove, at the head of the glen. b. In some parts of U.S.: a gap, pass. ΚΠ 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 511 Notch, a narrow passage, through the mountains..in the Catskill mountains represented by Cove. 4. A sheltered recess in a coast; a small bay, creek, or inlet where boats may shelter. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > bay or gulf > small hopec1425 docka1552 cove1590 hole1639 baylet1826 keyhole1851 porth1860 covelet1876 gunk-hole1908 1590 R. Ferris Most Dangerous Aduenture sig. B Within fiue myles of Saint Iues, we were constrained to seeke for a Coue, which we found called Saint Dryuey, in Cornwale. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia i. 20 Gallant Coues, to containe in many of them 100 sayle. 1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 62 Cove, a little harbour for boats. West Countrey. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 61 We run our Vessel into a little Cove. 1776 C. Lee in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 244 The creek, or cove, which separates it from the continent, is near a mile wide. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 37 There are several coves and indentures in the cliffs between the Start Point and the mouth of the Dart river. 1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 30 As waves that from the outer deep Roll into a quiet cove. 5. transferred. A sheltered place or recess among hills, woods, etc. ΚΠ 1768 C. Beatty Jrnl. 22 Preached in the settlement of the great Cove. 1786 W. Gilpin Observ. Mountains & Lakes Cumberland I. 133 Ambleside is..delightfully seated. A cove of lofty mountains half incircles it on the north. 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 203 We next passed over a level green lawn, a cove of the savanna. 1793 W. Wordsworth Evening Walk 2 'Tis mine to rove Through bare grey dell, high wood, and pastoral cove. 1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Cove, a strip of prairie extending into the woodland. 1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks II. xii. 35 Small farm-houses..may not unfrequently be met with in the little coves of the valleys. 6. a. Architecture. A concave arch or vault; an arched moulding or concavity running along the projecting member of a structure; esp. the concave arch of a ceiling; now usually the quadrantal curve at its junction with the cornice. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > other types of arch bowOE craba1387 cove1511 triumphal arch (arc)a1566 straight arch1663 pointed arch1688 rough arch1693 jack-arch1700 oxi1700 raking arch1711 flat arch1715 scheme-arch1725 counter-arch1726 ox-eye arch1736 surbased dome1763 ogee1800 rising arch1809 sub-arch1811 deaf arch1815 four-centred arch1815 mixed arch1815 Tudor arch1815 camber1823 lancet arch1823 invert1827 platband1828 pier arch1835 ogive1841 scoinson arch1842 segment1845 skew arch1845 drop-arch1848 equilateral arch1848 lancet1848 rear arch1848 straining-arch1848 tierceron1851 shouldered arch1853 archlet1862 segment-arch1887 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > concave moulding casementc1425 cove1511 scotia1563 trochilus1563 casemate1611 cavetto1700 throat1722 hollow1726 1511 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Payd for makyng off a cove ouer de ovyn. 1645 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 219 The fillings up, or cove, betwixt the walls, were of urns and earthen pots, for the better sounding. 1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 76 O'er-arching, mouldy, gloom-inspiring coves, Supporting roofs, fantastic. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §278 note This course..forms the cove on the outside. 1797 Trans. Soc. Arts 15 252 Paintings..on curved surfaces, such as the coves of ceilings. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 139 The coves and cornices of rooms are generally executed in plaster. 1884 Law Times 18 Oct. 401/2 The ceiling..is..joined to the walls with a cove having a radius of six feet. b. Nautical. (See quot. 1850.) ΚΠ 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 112 Cove, the arched moulding sunk in at the foot or lower part of the taffrail. c. Archaeology. A setting of a small number of stones close together within a henge monument. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > stone > circle > small number of stones within cove1743 1743 W. Stukeley Abury viii. 37 Thus we cast up the number [of stones]. The outer circle of Abury town, 100... The cove, 003... Longstone cove jambs, 002. 1743 W. Stukeley Abury x. 47 Another stonework towards the other end; which seems to have been a semicircular cove, or demi-ellipsis consisting of five great stones. 1819 R. C. Hoare Anc. Hist. N. Wilts 68 A cove, consisting of three large stones placed with an obtuse angle towards each other. 1936 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 2 25 At Avebury and at Arbor Low there are remains of more complex structures, sometimes known as coves. 1963 Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Surv.) (ed. 4) 40 Both at Stanton Drew and at Avebury there is a curious arrangement of stones known as a ‘cove’ which recalls, though on a larger scale, the burial place in a chambered barrow. Compounds cove-bracketing n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 958 Cove Bracketing, the wooden skeleton for the lathing of any cove..usually applied to that of the quadrantal cove, which is placed between the flat ceiling and the wall. cove-plane n. a plane for cutting coved surfaces. ΚΠ 1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. Wood-working Factories 146 In some shops it will be worked out by hand with cove planes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). coven.² /kəʊv/ Forms: 1500s–1600s cofe, 1500s coff, 1600s– cove. Etymology: The early variant cofe has suggested that this is identical with Scots cofe n., ‘chapman, pedlar’, the sense having undergone the same transition as in chap n.³, which is now nearly equivalent in meaning, save that cove belongs to a lower and more slangy stratum of speech. But the phonetic change of f to v , at so late a date, is not usual; and the origin of the word still remains obscure. Compare also co n.² slang (originally Thieves' cant). A fellow, ‘chap’, ‘customer’; sometimes = boss n.⁶ (see quot. 1891²). Frequent in the 20th century in Australian sources. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] churla800 werec900 rinkeOE wapmanc950 heOE wyeOE gomeOE ledeOE seggeOE shalkOE manOE carmanlOE mother bairnc1225 hemea1250 mother sona1250 hind1297 buck1303 mister mana1325 piecec1325 groomc1330 man of mouldc1330 hathela1350 sire1362 malea1382 fellowa1393 guestc1394 sergeant?a1400 tailarda1400 tulka1400 harlotc1405 mother's sona1470 frekea1475 her1488 masculinea1500 gentlemana1513 horse?a1513 mutton?a1513 merchant1549 child1551 dick1553 sorrya1555 knavea1556 dandiprat1556 cove1567 rat1571 manling1573 bird1575 stone-horse1580 loona1586 shaver1592 slave1592 copemate1593 tit1594 dog1597 hima1599 prick1598 dingle-dangle1605 jade1608 dildoa1616 Roger1631 Johnny1648 boy1651 cod1653 cully1676 son of a bitch1697 cull1698 feller1699 chap1704 buff1708 son of a gun1708 buffer1749 codger1750 Mr1753 he-man1758 fella1778 gilla1790 gloak1795 joker1811 gory1819 covey1821 chappie1822 Charley1825 hombre1832 brother-man1839 rooster1840 blokie1841 hoss1843 Joe1846 guy1847 plug1848 chal1851 rye1851 omee1859 bloke1861 guffin1862 gadgie1865 mug1865 kerel1873 stiff1882 snoozer1884 geezer1885 josser1886 dude1895 gazabo1896 jasper1896 prairie dog1897 sport1897 crow-eater1899 papa1903 gink1906 stud1909 scout1912 head1913 beezer1914 jeff1917 pisser1918 bimbo1919 bozo1920 gee1921 mush1936 rye mush1936 basher1942 okie1943 mugger1945 cat1946 ou1949 tess1952 oke1970 bra1974 muzhik1993 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) Peddelars Frenche sig. Giii A gentry cofe, a noble or gentle man. 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) Peddelars Frenche sig. Giiii^v What stowe you bene cofe..What holde your peace good fellowe. 1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. B3^v The word Coue, or Cofe or Cuffin, signifies a Man, a Fellow, &c...a good fellow, is a Bene Cofe. a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 52 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) There's a Gentry Cove here, Is the top of the shire. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Cofe, c. as Cove. 1737 in Logan Pedlar's Pack (1869) 147 Now my Kinchin Cove is gone. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) The master of a house or shop is called the Cove..; when joined to particular words, as a cross-cove, a flash-cove, a leary-cove, &c., it simply implies a man of those several descriptions. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. x. 151 That old cove at the book-stall. 1891 N. Gould Double Event 115 I am not in the habit of being called a cove. 1891 K. Lentzner Austral. Word-bk. Cove, master or overseer of an Australian station. 1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxxiii. 288 Recollec' that cove with a red beard. 1916 Anzac Bk. 65 Then a corporal called and wanted to know..when would the rubber boots be ready for the coves in the trenches? 1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee vii. 84 ‘He's one of those smart coves,’ said Sam. 1944 F. Clune Red Heart 67 ‘Must be a balmy cove,’ whispered one of the hangers-on as he tapped his forehead. 1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 190 The young coves round about combed their hair back with soap to keep it in position. 1969 Advertiser (Adelaide) 12 May 5/4 You Aussie coves are just a bunch of drongoes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020). covev. /kəʊv/ Etymology: < cove n.¹ †1. intransitive. To shelter in a cove or small bay. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (intransitive)] > take or be forced into shelter cove1631 to put to1801 1631 E. Pellham Gods Power 5 Even there betweene two rocks we coved. 1631 E. Pellham Gods Power 15 We could not possibly get to Bell Sownd that night, but Coved halfe way. 1708 E. Cook Sot-weed Factor 2 Weighing soon, we plough'd the Bay, To Cove it in Piscato-way. 2. a. transitive. To arch or vault; esp. to arch (a ceiling) at its junction with the wall. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [verb (transitive)] > vault vault1387 concamerate1611 camerate1623 cove1817 1756 [implied in: C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 130 The spring..is surrounded with a coved wall of about three feet high. (at coved adj.)]. 1779 [implied in: H. Swinburne Trav. Spain xliv. (T.) The mosques..are rounded into domes and coved roofs. (at coved adj.)]. 1817 W. Scott Let. 29 Oct. (1933) V. 3 I resign the idea of coving the library to your better judgement. 1864 R. Kerr Gentleman's House 207 Another good principle is to cove the ceilings. b. To incline inwards (the sides of a fireplace): see coving n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [verb (transitive)] > incline (sides of fireplace) inwards cove1838 1838 Papers on Duties Corps Royal Engineers II. 253 Fire-places..should all have their sides altered by coving them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021). > see also also refers to : † cofecovecofadv. also refers to : † couvecovev. < n.¹a800n.²1567v.1631 see also
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