Cover-shame

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• Shame

  ·noun To be ashamed; to feel shame. II. Shame ·vt To mock at; to <<Deride>>. III. Shame ·noun The ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Cover

  ·noun The lap of a slide valve. II. Cover ·vt To put the usual covering or headdress on. III. Cove...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• cover

  pronounced CAUVER. An abbreviation of RECOVER. North. Cow, the moving top of the chimney of a hop-oa...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• cover

  Security from attack or interruption, as under cover of the ship's guns, under cover of the parapet....

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Shame-proof

  ·noun <<Shameless>>. ...

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• burning shame

  A lighted candle stuck into the parts of a woman, certainly not intended by nature for a candlestick...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Cover crop

  ·add. ·- A catch crop planted, ·esp. in orchards. as a protection to the soil in winter, as well as ...

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• Cover-point

  ·noun The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point.". ...

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• boom-cover

  The tarpaulin, or painted, cover over the spars. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• casing-cover

  In the marine steam-engine is a steam-tight opening for the slide-valve rod to pass through. ...

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• cylinder-cover

  In the steam-engine, is a metal lid with a hole in the centre for the piston-rod to work through. ...

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