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† Couve, cove. World English Historical Dictionary

† Couve, cove. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. † Couve, cove v. Obs. [a. F. couve-r, OF. cover, to hatch (eggs):—L. cubāre to lie, recline.] trans. and intr. To incubate, hatch, or sit upon.

1 1601.  Holland, Pliny, XXI. xvii. Those living creature that couve and quicken their egges within their belly. Ibid., Index to X. liii. The knitting of egges within the bodie, the laying, couving and sitting of them. Ibid. (1603), Plutarch’s Mor., 1316. Whiles they sit and cove, their egges be preserved drie.

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