Cove

n.	1.
	1.	A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore. Vessels which were in readiness for him within secret coves and nooks. - Holland.
	2.	A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
	3.	(Arch.) A concave molding.
v. t.	1.	(Arch.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove. [imp. & p. p. Coved (k?vd); p. pr. & vb. n. Coving.] The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs. - H. Swinburne. Coved ceiling a ceiling, the part of which next the wail is constructed in a cove. Coved vault a vault composed of four coves meeting in a central point, and therefore the reverse of a groined vault.
	1.	To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs. Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel. - Holland.
n.	1.	A boy or man of any age or station. There's a gentry cove here. - Wit's Recreations (1654). Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drink Be not filched from us. - Mrs. Browning.

Noun	1.	cove - a small inlet
	2.	cove - small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain

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