(n.) A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges.
(n.) A company; a bevy; as, a covey of girls.
(v. i.) To brood; to incubate.
(n.) A pantry.
Example Sentences:
(1) We strolled across springy heather and moss as wet as a sponge, and a strange cackling call of “go-back, go-back” rose on the wind: small coveys of red grouse whirred away from us.
(2) ‘owl-light’ (Lancashire) fizmer the whispering sound of wind in reeds or grass (Fenland) grimlins the night hours around midsummer when dusk blends into dawn (Orkney) The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape Read more gruffy ground the surface landscape left behind by lead-mining (Somerset) grumma a mirage caused by mist or haze (Shetland) hob-gob a dangerously choppy sea (Suffolk) muxy of land; sticky, miry, muddy (Exmoor) outshifts the fringes and boundaries of a town (Cambridgeshire) roarie-bummlers fast-moving storm clouds (Scots) snow-bones long thin patches of snow still lying after a thaw, often in dips or stream-cuts (Yorkshire) turn-whol a deep and seething pool where two quick streams meet (Cumbria) zwer the whirring sound made by a covey of partridge taking flight (Exmoor)
(3) That action signals this administration’s commitment to protecting the interests of transgender people in this context and sends a message to state officials that the federal government has taken a clear position on the substantive legal issues in the case, said Georgia State University law professor Russell Covey.
(4) Donna Covey, its chief executive, said: "Councils must ensure that those in greatest need of housing are given priority, so it would be unjust and inhumane to force refugees to the end of the queue simply because they were not born in the UK.
(5) Sometimes only a word or touch of the hand can covey the physician's support and understanding which are so meaningful for a terminally ill patient.
Jug
Definition:
(n.) A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
(n.) A pitcher; a ewer.
(n.) A prison; a jail; a lockup.
(v. t.) To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.
(v. t.) To commit to jail; to imprison.
(v. i.) To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
(v. i.) To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(2) Allow to cool slightly for a few minutes before serving, with a jug of chilled cream alongside.
(3) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
(4) Our kind waiter, Paul, delighted our tot with her own special jug and cup, and steaming bowlfuls of spätzle pasta.
(5) You will never see cream in my house that is not in a jug, nor salt that is not in a cellar.
(6) I requested a jug from the nurse but she said the jug was broken and they had no others available.
(7) They took the term skiffle from a favourite record, Home Town Skiffle, a compilation of American jug band styles and western swing.
(8) I'm not too well up on the Middle Eastern judicial system, but couldn't he get slung in the jug for a very long time for that?
(9) "Look – Putin didn't find down there jugs that had lain there for many thousands of years.
(10) If anything, his brother David looks more like Wallace because he really does have Wallace-style jug ears.
(11) When a glass+jug (900 ml) was visible the alcoholics drank significantly more than the non-alcoholics.
(12) The product was jugged to be galactonic acid, based on the behavior of the acetylmethyl ester derivative of the product and the pentaacetyl derivative of the galactonic methyl ester during gas chromatography.
(13) During one technical challenge, I saw one baker use, at the very least, six glass bowls, a saucepan, a sieve, a spatula, a silicon sheet, spoons, a pastry brush, a skewer, a cake tin, palette knives, piping bags, a measuring jug, scissors, a rolling pin, spoons and a cooling rack.
(14) Earlier this year, Waitrose reported that sales of 1 litre mixing bowls had more than doubled, measuring jug sales had quadrupled and rolling pins were up 40% .
(15) A row of Toby jugs grinned and grimaced from an ornament rail in the hall.
(16) Still employed in the early 1990s, the classic label sported a blue-and-white striped milk jug beside two cherry-red mugs, resting on sheaves of wheat, against an luminous yellow arc of - well, obviously, an incandescent light bulb.
(17) I was disciplined for not changing the water often enough for a woman I was caring for despite the jug never being less than half full.
(18) Thymol mouthwash which had been made up and distributed in communal jugs was found to be contaminated with the epidemic strain and was the likely source for this outbreak.
(19) The woman declined an offer to post the jugs back to her afterwards, and the constable now has one "at home as a little keepsake because I thought it was such a nice gesture".
(20) He is, for instance, technically taller than Martin Freeman but not by much more than a jug of Bree's finest hobbit ale.