covercle

English

Etymology

From Middle English covercle, from Old French covercle, covescle, covecle. See cover.

Noun

covercle (plural covercles)

1. (obsolete) A small cover; a lid.
   • c. 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts:

     the covercle of a shell-fish

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “covercle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)