Word Definition

Cove

  1. To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
  2. A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
  3. A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.
  4. A boy or man of any age or station.
  5. A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
  6. To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
  7. A concave molding.

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