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cove

1 [kohv]

noun, verb, coved, cov⋅ing.

–noun

1.	a small indentation or recess in the shoreline of a sea, lake, or river.

2.	a sheltered nook.

3.	a hollow or recess in a mountain; cave; cavern.

4.	a narrow pass between woods or hills.

5.	a sheltered area between woods or hills.

Architecture.

a.	a concave surface or molding.

b.	a concave surface forming part of a ceiling at its edge so as to eliminate the usual interior angle between the wall and ceiling.

–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

7.	to make or become a cove.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE cofa cave, den, closet; c. ON kofi hut, Gk gýpē cave

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cove¹ (kōv) Pronunciation Key
n.

A small sheltered bay in the shoreline of a sea, river, or lake.
1. A recess or small valley in the side of a mountain.
2. A cave or cavern.
3. A concave molding.
4. A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall. Also called coving.
A narrow gap or pass between hills or woods.
Architecture
1. A concave molding.
2. A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall. Also called coving.

tr.v. coved, cov·ing, coves
To make in an inward curving form.

[Middle English, chamber, cave, from Old English cofa.]

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cov·ing (kō'vĭng) Pronunciation Key
n. See cove¹.

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Coving

Cove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coved (k?vd); p. pr. & vb. n. Coving.] (Arch.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.

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.