'Covert' definitions:
Definition of 'covert'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; "covert actions by the CIA"; "covert funding for the rebels" [ant: open, overt]
adjective
(of a wife) being under the protection of her husband; "a woman covert"
noun
A flock of coots
noun
A covering that serves to conceal or shelter something; "a screen of trees afforded privacy"; "under cover of darkness"; "the brush provided a covert for game"; "the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background" [syn: screen, cover, covert, concealment]
Definition of 'Covert'
From: GCIDE
- Covert \Cov"ert\, n. [OF. See Covert, a.]
- 1. A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense. [1913 Webster]
- A tabernacle . . . for a covert from storm. --Is. iv. 6. [1913 Webster]
- The highwayman has darted from his covered by the wayside. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. [Cf. F. couverte.] (Zool.) One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Covert'
From: GCIDE
- Covert \Cov"ert\ (k?v"?rt), a. [OF. covert, F. couvert, p. p. of couvrir. See Cover, v. t.]
- 1. Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised. [1913 Webster]
- How covert matters may be best disclosed. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Whether of open war or covert guile. --Milton [1913 Webster]
- 2. Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook. -- Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband. [1913 Webster]
- Covert way, (Fort.) See Covered way, under Covered.
- Syn: Hidden; secret; private; covered; disguised; insidious; concealed. See Hidden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'covert'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abri,
- abstruse,
- air-raid shelter,
- armored,
- asylum,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- beclouded,
- between the lines,
- blanket,
- blind,
- bolt-hole,
- bomb shelter,
- bombproof,
- boscage,
- bosket,
- brake,
- bunker,
- buried,
- burrow,
- by stealth,
- cache,
- camouflaged,
- canebrake,
- cased,
- cave,
- ceiled,
- ceja,
- chamisal,
- chaparral,
- clandestine,
- cloak,
- cloaked,
- close,
- clouded,
- coat,
- coated,
- concealed,
- concealment,
- coped,
- coppice,
- copse,
- copsewood,
- corner,
- couch,
- cover,
- coverage,
- covered,
- covering,
- covertly,
- coverture,
- cowl,
- cowled,
- cowling,
- cranny,
- cryptic,
- cubby,
- cubbyhole,
- curtain,
- curtained,
- cyclone cellar,
- dark corner,
- delitescent,
- den,
- disguised,
- dormant,
- drape,
- drapery,
- dugout,
- earth,
- eclipsed,
- encapsulated,
- encapsuled,
- encased,
- enveloped,
- enwrapped,
- esoteric,
- fallout shelter,
- feather,
- feathers,
- feline,
- filmed,
- floored,
- form,
- foxhole,
- frith,
- funk hole,
- furtive,
- furtively,
- guarded,
- guise,
- hackle,
- hanging,
- harbor,
- harborage,
- haven,
- hibernating,
- hid,
- hidden,
- hideaway,
- hideout,
- hidey hole,
- hiding,
- hiding place,
- hidlings,
- hole,
- hole-and-corner,
- hood,
- hooded,
- housed,
- housing,
- hugger-mugger,
- hush-hush,
- in a cloud,
- in a fog,
- in camera,
- in eclipse,
- in purdah,
- in the wings,
- incommunicado,
- lair,
- latent,
- lodge,
- loricate,
- loricated,
- lurking,
- mail,
- mantle,
- mantled,
- mask,
- masked,
- mew,
- motte,
- muffled,
- mysterious,
- mystic,
- niche,
- nook,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- occult,
- occulted,
- packaged,
- pall,
- paved,
- plumage,
- port,
- possible,
- potential,
- privately,
- privy,
- quiet,
- recess,
- recondite,
- refuge,
- retreat,
- roofed-in,
- run,
- safety zone,
- sanctuary,
- screen,
- screened,
- scummed,
- secluded,
- secluse,
- secret,
- secret place,
- sequestered,
- sheathed,
- shelled,
- shelter,
- shield,
- shielded,
- shifty,
- shroud,
- shrouded,
- skulking,
- sleeping,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- speculum,
- stash,
- stealthily,
- stealthy,
- storm cave,
- storm cellar,
- sub rosa,
- submerged,
- surreptitious,
- surreptitiously,
- swathed,
- tented,
- thicket,
- thickset,
- trench,
- tunnel,
- under an eclipse,
- under cover,
- under house arrest,
- under the surface,
- under wraps,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- undercovert,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- underlying,
- unknown,
- unmanifested,
- unobtrusive,
- veil,
- veiled,
- vestment,
- virtual,
- walled,
- walled-in,
- wrapped,
- wrapped in clouds