单词 | couve |
释义 | † couve, cove, v. Obs. [a. F. couve-r, OF. cover, to hatch (eggs):—L. cubāre to lie, recline.] trans. and intr. To incubate, hatch, or sit upon.
1601Holland Pliny xxi. xvii, Those living creature that couve and quicken their egges within their belly. Ibid. Index to x. liii, The knitting of egges within the bodie, the laying, couving and sitting of them. 1603― Plutarch's Mor. 1316 Whiles they sit and cove, their egges be preserved drie. |

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