noun
- A flock of coots.
- A covering that serves to conceal or shelter something.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: screen, cover, concealment
adjective
- Secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed.
- usage: "covert actions by the CIA"; "covert funding for the rebels"
- Of a wife. ( being under the protection of her husband)
- usage: "a woman covert"
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