Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small cover; a lid; an operculum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A small cover; a lid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A small
cover ; alid .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Un _hanappe_ de Beril gravez de long taille, et assis en un peé d'or, ove un large bordur paramont, et un covercle tout d'or, ove un saphir sur le pomel du dit covercle."
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a small hole closed by the upper extremity of the columella, nature has not furnished monkeys with the means of opening the ligneous pericarp, as it has of opening the covercle of the lecythis, called in the missions the covercle of the monkeys 'cocoa.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Monkeys may have been seen rolling along the fruit of the bertholletia, but though this fruit has a small hole closed by the upper extremity of the columella, nature has not furnished monkeys with the means of opening the ligneous pericarp, as it has of opening the covercle of the lecythis, called in the missions the covercle of the monkeys’ cocoa.
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