[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cover \cov"er\ k?v"?r, v. t. imp.  p. p. covered -?rd;
   p. pr.  vb. n. covering. of. covrir, f. couvrir, fr. l.
   cooperire; co- + operire to cover; probably fr. ob towards,
   over + the root appearing in aperire to open. cf. aperient,
   overt, curfew.
   1. to overspread the surface of one thing with another; as,
      to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with
      a cloth.
      1913 webster

   2. to envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak.
      1913 webster

            and with the majesty of darkness round
            covers his throne.                    --milton.
      1913 webster

            all that beauty than doth cover thee. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to invest one's self with something; to bring upon
      one's self; as, he covered himself with glory.
      1913 webster

            the powers that covered themselves with everlasting
            infamy by the partition of poland.    --brougham.
      1913 webster

   4. to hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the enemy were
      covered from our sight by the woods.
      1913 webster

            a cloud covered the mount.            --exod. xxiv.
                                                  15.
      1913 webster

            in vain shou striv'st to cover shame with shame.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   5. to brood or sit on; to incubate.
      1913 webster

            while the hen is covering her eggs, the male . . .
            diverts her with his songs.           --addison.
      1913 webster

   6. to overwhelm; to spread over.
      1913 webster

            the waters returned and covered the chariots and the
            horsemen.                             --ex. xiv. 28.
      1913 webster

   7. to shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend;
      as, the cavalry covered the retreat.
      1913 webster

            his calm and blameless life
            does with substantial blessedness abound,
            and the soft wings of peace cover him round.
                                                  --cowley.
      1913 webster

   8. to remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit.
      "blessed is he whose is covered." --ps. xxxii. 1.
      1913 webster

   9. to extend over; to be sufficient for; to comprehend,
      include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to
      counterbalance; as, a mortgage which fully covers a sum
      loaned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a
      crime; receipts than do not cover expenses.
      1913 webster

   10. to put the usual covering or headdress on.
       1913 webster

             cover thy head . . .; nay, prithee, be covered.
                                                  --shak.
       1913 webster

   11. to copulate with a female; to serve; as, a horse covers
       a mare; -- said of the male.
       1913 webster

   to cover ground or to cover distance, to pass over; as,
      the rider covered the ground in an hour.

   to cover one's short contracts stock exchange, to buy
      stock when the market rises, as a dealer who has sold
      short does in order to protect himself.

   covering party mil., a detachment of troops sent for the
      protection of another detachment, as of men working in the
      trenches.

   to cover into, to transfer to; as, to cover into the
      treasury.

   syn: to shelter; screen; shield; hide; overspread.
        1913 webster
see also:
covered covering aperient overt curfew to cover ground 
to cover distance to cover one's short contracts covering party to cover into 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

covering \cov"ering\, n.
   anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a
   wrapper, clothing, etc.
   1913 webster

         noah removed the covering of the ark.    --gen. viii.
                                                  13.
   1913 webster

         they cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that
         they have no covering in the cold.       --job. xxiv.
                                                  7.
   1913 webster

         a covering over the well's mouth.        --2 sam. xvii.
                                                  19.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

covering
     n 1: a natural object that covers or envelops; "under a covering
          of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover" syn: natural
          covering, cover
     2: an artifact that covers something else usually to protect
        or shelter or conceal it
     3: the act of concealing the existence of something by
        obstructing the view of it; "the cover concealed their
        guns from enemy aircraft" syn: cover, screening, masking
     4: the act of protecting something by covering it
     5: the work of applying something; "the doctor prescribed a
        topical application of iodine"; "a complete bleach
        requires several applications"; "the surface was ready for
        a coating of paint"; syn: application, coating
see also:
natural covering cover screening masking application coating 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

187 moby thesaurus words for "covering":
   assimilating, bigness, blanket, blanketing, border, brooding,
   burial, burying, calcimining, circumference, cloak, cloaking,
   clouding, coat, coating, collop, comprising, concealedness,
   concealing, concealment, containing, cortex, counting, cover,
   coverage, covering up, covert, covertness, coverture, cowl,
   cowling, crust, curtain, curtaining, custodial, cut, darkening,
   deal, deception, defensive, disk, drape, drapery, embracing,
   enameling, encircling, enclosing, encompassing, envelope,
   enveloping, envisaging, epidermis, exterior, external, facade,
   face, facet, feuille, film, flap, foil, fold, fostering, fresco,
   fringe, front, gestation, gilding, glazing, glossing, gravidity,
   gravidness, greatness, guardian, guarding, guise, hanging,
   heaviness, hiddenness, hiding, hood, housing, immunizing,
   including, inclusive, incorporating, incubation, integument,
   interment, invisibility, japanning, lamella, lamina,
   laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, leaf, lineaments, mantle,
   mask, masking, membrane, mystification, nonrevealing, numbering,
   obscuration, obscurement, obscuring, occultation, outer face,
   outer layer, outer side, outer skin, outline, outside, painting,
   pall, pane, panel, parental, patina, peel, pellicle, periphery,
   plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood, pregnancy, preventive,
   priming, prophylactic, protecting, protective, putting away,
   rasher, rind, safeguarding, safety glass, screen, screening, scum,
   secrecy, secretion, shading, sheathing, sheet, shell, shellacking,
   shelter, sheltering, shield, shielding, shroud, shrouding, sitting,
   skin, slab, slat, slice, staining, stippling, subterfuge,
   superficies, superstratum, surface, table, tablet, the family way,
   top, tutelary, uncommunicativeness, undercoating, undisclosing,
   unrevealing, varnishing, veil, veiling, veneer, vestment, vigilant,
   wafer, watchful, whitewashing, wrapping

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