Definition of Dovered

1. dover [v] - See also: dover

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dovered

doveish
dovekey
dovekeys
dovekie
dovekies
dovelet
dovelets
dovelike
doveling
doven
dovened
dovening
dovens
dover's powder
dovera
dovered (current term)
dovering
dovers
doves
doveship
dovetail
dovetail joint
dovetail plane
dovetailed
dovetailing
dovetailings
dovetails
dovie
dovier
doviest

Literary usage of Dovered

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bookman (1898)
"... and good customers, so he composed himself in a lug chair and dovered in a little room opening off ours ; while we sat fingering the book. ..."

2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"Ane o* them gave me a nob on the crown, that dovered me, and made me tumble heels-o'er-head." Perils of Man, iii. 416. ..."

3. John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro (1898)
"... and good customers, so he composed himself in a lug chair and dovered in a little room opening off ours, while we sat fingering the book. ..."

4. Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the by Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes (1830)
"The first of these, comprising the delightful country around the skirts of the mountain, is well cultivated, thickly inhabited, and dovered with olives, ..."

5. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1901)
"... up to the very boundary of the ice, or perhaps in the case of the plants and insects even extending, as in Alaska, upon the drift-dovered ice-border. ..."

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