cover.' name='description'> cover'd - definition and meaning

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  • verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of cover.

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Examples

  • South-downs, cover'd with Flocks of Sheep, and with Thime, here we had a grand and delightful view of the Country for forty miles on one side, and the wide sea on the other.

    Letter 173 2009

  • There will be a full Moon on Sunday week the 2d of September at Midnight, and an eclipse will come on about half after 9 at night and last till 12, when you may see the full broad-faced luminary perhaps half cover'd by the shadow of the earth.

    Letter 266 2009

  • Mr O knows what it is to see an unfinishd Sermon, and you have candor enough to see with right feelings an unfinishd picture, where touches intended to be given are not yet done, — and one third of the paper not cover'd.

    Letter 230 2009

  • The Fog at seven in the morning hung thick over the Mole; yet the greater part of the low ground was clearing fast, and brightening into sunshine; but in this nook immediately under the Hill, one unbroken mass of Fog cover'd Mr B's grounds

    Letter 106 2009

  • I had no idea until I saw the cover'd replaced your photo on the Blueboards!

    The Generosity of Strangers a.k.a. "Gentle Readers" Blythe 2010

  • I found a Suit of Man's Apparel, which lay so well cover'd under a great

    Exilius 2008

  • Approaching the Place, (which is inviron'd and cover'd over with Trees) I saw lying, as it were, at the Feet of the Goddess, a gallant Person asleep, who at the Noise of our Entry awak'd, and seeming all surpriz'd, cast himself at my Feet, saying, If you be the Guardian Goddess of this

    Exilius 2008

  • Wretch that offer'd her the Outrage, I cover'd his dead Body with my

    Exilius 2008

  • Why, thine head cover'd, dost thou pour these tears?

    Ion 2008

  • Why, thine head cover'd, dost thou pour these tears?

    Ion 2008

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