Covey

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Covey \Cov"ey\, v. i.
     To brood; to incubate. [Obs.]
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           [Tortoises] covey a whole year before they hatch.
                                                    --Holland.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Covey \Cov"ey\, n.
     A pantry. [Prov. Eng.] --Parker.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Covey \Cov"ey\ (k?v"?), n. [OF. cov?e, F. couv?e, fr. cover, F.
     couver, to sit or brood on, fr. L. cubare to lie down; cf. E.
     incubate. See {Cubit}, and cf. {Cove} to brood.]
     1. A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of
        young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together;
        -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges. --Darwin.
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     2. A company; a bevy; as, a covey of girls. --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  covey
       n 1: a small collection of people
       2: a small flock of grouse or partridge

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  89 Moby Thesaurus words for "covey":
     a mass of, a world of, age group, army, band, battalion, bevy,
     body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cast, charm, clique, cloud, clutter,
     cohort, company, complement, contingent, corps, coterie, crew,
     crowd, detachment, detail, division, faction, fleet, flight, flock,
     flocks, gaggle, gang, group, grouping, groupment, hail, hive, host,
     in-group, jam, junta, large amount, legion, lots, many, masses of,
     mob, movement, muchness, multitude, murmuration, nest, numbers,
     out-group, outfit, pack, party, peer group, phalanx, plague,
     platoon, plurality, posse, quantities, quite a few, regiment, rout,
     ruck, salon, scores, set, shoal, skein, spring, squad, stable,
     string, swarm, team, throng, tidy sum, tribe, troop, troupe, watch,
     wing, worlds of