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FEW: cubare 2/ii,1441b Gdf: couver 2,344c GdfC: couver 9,234c TL: cover 2,990 DEAF: cover DMF: couver TLF: couver OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: cubare

coever, cuver

v.a.

1 orn.zool. to brood, hatch (out):

( 1121-35; MS: s.xii^3/3 ) Perdix [...] En sun ni les (=stolen eggs) metrat; Lores les cuverat 1967

( s.xivⁱⁿ; MS: s.xiv^m ) cuver ses eofs 162

♦to be hatched:

( s.xiii^ex; MS: c.1300 ) les jufnes (=bees) qe sunt coveez en esté ne sevent pas si byen porneer (l. porveer) […] en hyver 432

♦to place eggs under a hen to be hatched:

( s.xivⁱⁿ; MS: 1382 ) Gelyne est covee (M.E. Henne is set) 850

v.n.

1orn.zool.to brood, sit (on eggs):

( s.xiii^1/3; MS: s.xiii^ex ) Saunz le (=aetites) ne cove l’aigle 132

( s.xivⁱⁿ; MS: s.xiv^m ) Et tant com ele (=female stork) coeve il (=male) travaille entour lur viande purchacer 162

( MS: s.xiv¹ ) pernez le oef de la geline […] kant ele avera cuvé e le despescez 33.288

covee

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