(historical) A portion of plate armour to protect the lower face and the neck, typically in two parts, called upper bevor and lower bevor.
corve
corve
noun
Alternative form of corf
cover
cover
adj
(music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
noun
(combinatorics, topology) A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
(construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
(dated) A swindler's confederate.
(espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
(insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
(law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
(military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
(music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
(philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
(uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
A cover charge.
A lid.
A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
The top sheet of a bed.
verb
(chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
(intransitive) To act as a replacement.
(intransitive, dated) To put on one's hat.
(military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
(music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
(of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
(sports) To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
(transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
(transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
(transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
(transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
(transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
(transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
To be enough money for.
To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
To deal with or include someone or something.
To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
To provide insurance coverage for.
To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
dover
drove
drove
noun
(collective) A group of hares.
(figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven; a drove road.
The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
verb
(transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
simple past tense of drive
evora
evros
grove
grove
noun
(Druidism, Wicca) A place of worship.
A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.
A small forest.
An orchard of fruit trees.
verb
(forestry, of trees) To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
To plough or gouge with lines.
hover
hover
noun
(chiefly Southern England) A cover; a protection; a shelter; specifically, an overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter; also, a shelter for hens brooding their eggs.
(figuratively) An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
verb
(computing) Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).
(nautical) To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.
(obsolete) Of a bird or insect: to flap (its wings) so it can remain stationary in the air.
Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.
To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.
To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
To remain stationary or float in the air.
iover
lover
lover
noun
(West Country, with "my") An informal term of address for any friend.
A person who loves something.
A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair.
Obsolete form of louver.
One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.
mover
mover
noun
A dancer.
A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another.
A product that sells well.
Someone who or something that moves.
Someone who proposes a motion at a meeting.
orvet
orvet
noun
(obsolete) The slowworm.
orvie
ouvre
ouvre
noun
Misspelling of oeuvre.
overs
overs
noun
plural of over
overt
overt
adj
Open and not concealed or secret.
prove
prove
noun
(baking) The process of dough proofing.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To experience.
(copulative) To turn out to be.
(homeopathy) To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.
(intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.
(printing, dated, transitive) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
(transitive) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
(transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.
(transitive) To put to the test, to make trial of.
Alternative form of proof (“allow (dough) to rise; test the activeness of (yeast); pressure-test (a firearm)”)
simple past tense of proove
roove
roved
roved
verb
past participle of rove
roven
rover
rover
noun
(American football) A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a hybrid of those of a cornerback, safety and linebacker.
(Australian Rules football) A position that is one of three of a team's followers, who follow the ball around the ground. Formerly a position for short players, rovers in professional leagues are frequently over 183 cm (6').
(archery, usually in the plural) A randomly selected target.
(baseball) The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball.
(croquet) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
(obsolete) A sort of arrow.
A remotely-operated vehicle; ROV
A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.
A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.
roves
roves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rove
rovet
serov
servo
servo
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) A service station, being a place to buy petrol for cars etc., as well as various convenience items, with or without actual car service facilities.
A servomechanism or servomotor.
verb
To control by means of servocontrol
torve
trove
trove
noun
A collection of things.
A treasure trove; a collection of treasure.
vedro
vedro
noun
A Russian liquid measure, approximately 2.7 imperial gallons.
veron
verso
verso
noun
(printing) The left-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an even page number.
The back side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal;
vireo
vireo
noun
Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, shrike-vireos, greenlets and peppershrikes.
Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus Vireo, that have grey-green plumage.
voder
voder
Noun
An early electronic device for synthesizing speech by imitating the effects of the human vocal tract.
vomer
vomer
noun
(anatomy) The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.
voter
voter
noun
In your opinion, should we allow 16 and 17 year olds to become voters?