overcovern.
/ˈəʊvəˌkʌvə/, U.S. /ˈoʊvərˌkəvər/ A thing which covers the outside of something; esp. the outermost cover of a book.
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1876 Scribner's Monthly July 187/2 None the less did the older priest cut open the stitches which held on the parchment over-cover.
1915 F. M. Hueffer Good Soldier iv. ii. 244 Fishing rods in green baize over-covers.
1995 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch (Nexis) 17 Dec. g9 The book is beautiful from the first glance, with a transparent overcover of a lattice design.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
overcoverv.
/ˌəʊvəˈkʌvə/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈkəvər/ Now literary and archaic.
transitive. To cover or spread over; to cover up completely; to bury. Also figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > cover over or up
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beshroud1847
to cover up1872
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Judith v. 9 Whan hungir hadde ouer couered al the lond, thei wenten doun in to egipt.
?a1425 (a1415) Lanterne of Liȝt (Harl.) (1917) 25 (MED) Þe congregacioun..of feiþful soulis, þat..ouercoueren or hillen þis bilding in perfite charite.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail lvi. 433 (MED) On hym there fyl a gret kernel of ston And Ouercovered hym bothe tope and to.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 569 They..made grete dole whan they sawe their swerdys overcoverde with bloode of there bodyes.
a1500 in Anglia (1880) 3 328 (MED) In ffebruarij..the lond was ouer-covirde with ffrost and snowe.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 159 Welth, warldly gloir and riche array Ar all bot thornis..Ourcowerd with flouris.
1622 G. Markham & W. Sampson Herod & Antipater i. sig. C Neuer was so sad a day before Seene to ore-couer Ægypt.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 53 The symmaris of this kill wes first overcoverit with dovetis and syne weill coverit with stray.
1708 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 112 'Twas all over cover'd with a great number of exceeding small rising roundnesses.
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. v. 191 The principal Figure..who was all over covered with Blood, which the whole Company concluded to be his own. View more context for this quotation
1814 Prophetess ii. iii, in New Brit. Theatre I. 195 Turret, dome, and spire Are all o'ercover'd with the human swarm.
1851 Internat. Mag. Mar. 480/2 Then the sun came out and shone so brightly; and then the clouds over-covered it, and the rain came pattering down.
a1938 G. Jones Coll. Poems (1996) 195 The crimson day is bursting like a rose That pushes from its blackened outer bud To overcover that from which it grows.
1962 R. C. Zaehner Hinduism ii. 54 In the beginning desire which was the first seed of mind overcovered it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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