The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are
rounded into domes and coved roofs. --H.
Swinburne.
{Coved ceiling}, a ceiling, the part of which next the wail
is constructed in a cove.
{Coved vault}, a vault composed of four coves meeting in a
central point, and therefore the reverse of a groined
vault.
Vessels which were in readiness for him within
secret coves and nooks. --Holland.
2. A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess
in the side of a mountain. [U.S.]
3. (Arch.)
(a) A concave molding.
(b) A member, whose section is a concave curve, used
especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as
around a skylight.
Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she
[the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel.
--Holland.
There's a gentry cove here. --Wit's
Recreations
(1654).
Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drink Be
not filched from us. --Mrs.
Browning.