covert
7 02 2010Nouns
1. (n.) covert;
- a flock of coots;
2. (n.) concealment, cover, covert, screen;
- a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something;
- “a screen of trees afforded privacy”; “under cover of darkness”; “the brush provided a covert for game”; “the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background”;
Adjectives
1. (adj.) covert;
- secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed;
- “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”;
2. (adj.) covert;
- (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband;
- “a woman covert”;