covey

covey englannista suomeksi

1. pieni metsäkanaparvi, pieni peltopyyparvi

2. ryhmä

1. poikue

2. parvi

3. joukko, parvi

covey englanniksi

1. (senseid) A brood or family of partridges (family (taxfmt)), which includes birds such as grouse (tribe (taxlink)) and ptarmigans (tribe Tetraonini, genus (taxfmt)).

2. (RQ:Virgil Stanyhurst Aeneid) This coouie rauenouſe, and ſwift with a deſperat onſet, / They gripte in tallants the meat, and foorth ſpourged a ſtincking / Foule carrayne fauoure: (..)|footer=Applied to mythological harpies.|brackets=on

3. (RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World) yet if they hear once the Foulers chanterell comming tovvard the male, and that he doth call, preſently they vvill leave the neſt and ſuffer the egs to chill, and for very jealouſie crie again and call back the males, and offer themſelves to be troden, for feare they vvould goe to others. (..) And all this doth ſhe to amuſe the Fouler after her, untill ſhe have trained him a contrarie vvay from the covey. Novv by that time that ſhee is paſt that feare, and freed of the motherly care ſhe had of her young ones, than vvill ſhee get into the furrovv of ſome land, lie along her backe, catch a clot of earth up vvith her feet, and therevvith hide her vvhole bodie, and ſo have both her ſelfe and her couvey.

4. (RQ:Plutarch Holland Morals) thus they play mock-holiday vvith the fovvlers, and yet vvith ſome danger to themſelves for the ſafetie of their young, untill they have trained them a great vvay off, vvho ſought for their lives.

5. (RQ:John Gay Poems)

6. (RQ:Landon Romance) A lingering hope of the covies gave unusual animation to her brother's manner, when he hoped their acquaintance was only begun: (..)

8. A group of other birds, such as quail (superfamily (taxlink)).

(coordinate terms)

9. (quote-book)

10. (quote-journal)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Filipacchi Media U.S.|CBS Publications|month=November|year=1977|volume=LXXXII|issue=7|page=89|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=up_dVv12BrkC&pg=PA89|columns=2–3|issn=0015-0673|oclc=64226494|passage=No sooner had I spoken than a covey of perhaps twenty birds flushed wild ahead of us and disappeared into the pine woods. (..) Just the slamming of a car door, too much talking, or a fast-moving dog will cause a covey to flush well out of gun range.

11. A group or party of people; also, a group or set of things.

12. (RQ:Lyly Pappe)

13. (RQ:Fletcher Massinger Elder Brother)

14. (RQ:Fuller Worthies of England)

15. (RQ:De Quincey Works)

16. (RQ:Thackeray Virginians)

17. (RQ:Henry Four Million)

18. (term-label) To gather into a group.

19. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) John Clowes, for Mathew Walbancke(nb...)|year=1649|page=117|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=mfhmAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA117|oclc=1351300404|passage=Our fortunes and our ſelves, are things ſo cloſely linked, that vve knovv not vvhich is the cauſe of the love that vve finde, vvhen theſe tvvo ſhall part, vve may then diſcover to vvhich of them affection vvill make vvinge; vvhen they are covied together vve knovv not vvhich is in purſuit; vvhen they riſe and breake, vve ſhall then ſee vvhich is aimed at.

20. (RQ:Burns Poems)|footer=An adjective use.

21. (quote-journal)|month=January|year=1832|volume=I|section=sonnet no. I|page=252|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=o2EEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA252|oclc=1377748508|passage=The lapwing's covied tribes forsake / The fens, to seek the glassy lake.|footer=(small)

22. (quote-book)|location=Jacksonville, Fla.|publisher=(...) Edward M. Cheney,(nb...)|year=1869|page=108|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=lHkoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA108|oclc=44387292|passage=There are immense quantities of wild ducks on the rivers, but they are shy, and it is difficult to approach near enough to shoot them. There is a duck called the raft duck, because it is so numerous, coveying together in "whole rafts."

23. (quote-journal)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Filipacchi Media U.S.|CBS Publications|month=November|year=1977|volume=LXXXII|issue=7|page=89|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=up_dVv12BrkC&pg=PA89|columns=2–3|issn=0015-0673|oclc=64226494|passage=No sooner had I spoken than a covey of perhaps twenty birds flushed wild ahead of us and disappeared into the pine woods. They were not coveyed up, but were scattered out over 100 yards, feeding.

24. A male person, a man; a chap, a chappie.

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25. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Hailes Lacy,(nb...)|year=1821 September (first performance)|year_published=1851|volume=III|section=Act II, scene ii|page=43|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=kjA3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA43|oclc=14250603|passage=I don't know what would become of these here young chaps, if it wasn't for such careful old coveys as we are— (..)

26. (RQ:Dickens Oliver Twist)

27. (quote-book)|location=Boston, Mass.|publisher=F. Gleason,(nb...)|year=1850|page=140|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=kU8gAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA140|column=2|oclc=5160527|passage=There vas an old covey as lived in Wapping, at the time I'm telling you of, who vas connected vith us by ties of common interest.|footer=(small)