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Cove vs. Covess

Difference Between Cove and Covess

Cove

A cove is a small type of bay or coastal inlet. Coves usually have narrow, restricted entrances, are often circular or oval, and are often situated within a larger bay.
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Covess

A woman.
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Cove

A small sheltered bay in the shoreline of a sea, river, or lake.
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Cove

A recess or small valley in the side of a mountain.
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Cove

A cave or cavern.
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Cove

A narrow gap or pass between hills or woods.
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Cove

A concave molding.
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Cove

A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall. Also called coving.
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Cove

A fellow; a man.
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Cove

To make in an inward curving form.
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Cove

A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
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Cove

(architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
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Cove

A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.
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Cove

(US) A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
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Cove

A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
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Cove

(nautical) The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
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Cove

(nautical) A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
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Cove

A fellow; a man.
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Cove

A friend; a mate.
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Cove

(architecture) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
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Cove

To brood, cover, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
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Cove

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.
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Cove

A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
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Cove

A concave molding.
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Cove

A boy or man of any age or station.
There's a gentry cove here.
Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drinkBe not filched from us.
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Cove

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.
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Cove

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.
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Cove

a small inlet
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Cove

small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain
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