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CLANDESTINE |
Covert |
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SECRET |
Covert |
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SPY |
Covert operative |
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WIRETAP |
Covert listening device |
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STEALTH |
Lets hat out by covert means |
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LODGE |
To drive to shelter; to track to covert. |
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STEAL |
To gain by insinuating arts or covert means. |
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SPRING |
To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert. |
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SNEER |
To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak
derisively. |
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OVERT |
Not covert; open; public; manifest; as, an overt act of
treason. |
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COVERT |
Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as,
a covert nook. |
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TECTRICES |
The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust.
of Bird. |
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SINISTER |
Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger;
as, a sinister countenance. |
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AMBUSCADE |
To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or
lurking place; to waylay. |
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BLIND |
Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to
conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge. |
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COVER |
The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game;
covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover. |
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ALLUSION |
A reference to something supposed to be known, but not
explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint. |
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ROUSE |
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to
rouse a deer or other animal of the chase. |
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DISCOVERT |
Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony;
unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a
widow. |
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SAP |
A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel
toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under
cover of gabions, etc. |
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COVERTURE |
The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is
considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her
husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte. |
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EMISSARY |
An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the
interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war
with another, to cre... |
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ELUDE |
To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to
escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to
baffle; as, to elu... |