Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cove"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she
[the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel.
--Holland.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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