1. Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown: covert military operations; covert funding for the rebels. See synonyms at secret. 2. Covered or covered over; sheltered. 3.Law Being married and therefore protected by one's husband.
NOUN:
1. A covering or cover. 2a. A covered place or shelter; hiding place. b. Thick underbrush or woodland affording cover for game. 3.Zoology One of the small feathers covering the bases of the longer feathers of a bird's wings or tail. 4. A flock of coots. See synonyms at flock1.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old French, from past participle of covrir, to cover. See cover.
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