(Min.) A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oölite, and not of the true coal era. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. cov&unr_;e, F. couv&unr_;e, fr. cover, F. couver, to sit or brood on, fr. L. cubare to lie down; cf. E. incubate. See Cubit, and cf. Cove to brood. ]
v. i. To brood; to incubate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
[ Tortoises ] covey a whole year before they hatch. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A pantry. [ Prov. Eng. ] Parker. [ 1913 Webster ]