Meaning

Obsolete spelling of covey..

Definitions by Sense

1. Obsolete spelling of covey.
2. (intransitive) Alternative spelling of covey (“to gather into a group”).
3. (ambitransitive, also figurative, obsolete) Synonym of cove (“of a bird or other animal: to brood, cover, incubate, or sit over (eggs)”).

Example Sentences

Our fortunes and our ſelves, are things ſo cloſely linked, that vve knovv not vvhich is the cauſe of the love that vve finde, vvhen theſe tvvo ſhall part, vve may then diſcover to vvhich of them affection vvill make vvinge; vvhen they are covied together vve knovv not vvhich is in purſuit; vvhen they riſe and breake, vve ſhall then ſee vvhich is aimed at.

The lapwing's covied tribes forsake / The fens, to seek the glassy lake.

Their [tortoises'] manner is to go aland, vvhere among the graſſe they lay egges as bigge as birds egs, to the number commonly of an hundred. […] [I]n the night time ſit upon them: they couvie a whole yeere before they hatch.

Darling, of all the sweet thoughts that ever covied in thy heart and took wing from thy pretty lips, that is to me the noblest, sweetest, best.

Word Forms

• covies
• covying
• covied
• couvey

Synonyms for covie

When Should You Use Covie?

Use covie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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