discovert

English

Etymology

Old French descovert, past participle of descovrir (“to uncover”).

Noun

discovert (plural discoverts)

  1. (obsolete) An uncovered place or part.

Derived terms
  • at discovert

Adjective

discovert (not comparable)

  1. (law, obsolete) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “discovert”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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